ChatGPT will end up creating more work than it saves

On the one hand, OpenAI appears to be adopting a classic mode of technological solutionism: creating a problem, and then selling the solution to the problem it created. But on the other hand, it might not even matter if either ChatGPT or its antidote actually “works,” whatever that means (in addition to its limited accuracy, the program is effective only on English text and needs at least 1,000 characters to work with). The machine-learning technology and others like it are creating a new burden for everyone. Now, in addition to everything else we have to do, we also have to make time for the labor of distinguishing between human and AI, and the bureaucracy that will be built around it.

If I stop and think about what the internet is to me in 2023: it's a large, large, large collection of low quality writing/journalism about niche topics that just reiterates existing information.

So... in my mind, we already live in a ChatGPT world here.

The only difference is we are no longer limited by the physical number of human blogger/journalists/content creators (Lord help us). The existing gulf between social media fodder and capital J Journalism will probably continue to grow, and content curation and personal taste will matter all the more.

I for one cannot begin to fathom an internet with exponentially more content to further dilute the fixed amount of insight.

Perhaps I will go out and buy a newspaper.

I believe ChatGPT and and other assistants will create immense value by providing personal tutoring.