Oddly, “bullshit” qualifies as a technical term in this context. The authors argue that chatgpt (and similar systems) emit bullshit.
They don’t lie or hallucinate because they don’t know or believe anything. It’s all just text modeling.
The focus in this type of AI is to produce text that looks convincing, but it doesn’t have any concept of truth/falsehood, fact or fiction.
When this is the way someone talks, we say that they’re bullshitting us. So it is with chatgpt.
I love the term too but I wonder how it’ll be used in situations where profanity is discouraged
I couldn’t care less about places in which profanity is discouraged.
If you’re going to be disrespectful, you’ll be so regardless of language.
For instance:
“You suck donkey balls”
vs.
(And bear in mind that I don’t use this term!)
“You’re mentally retarded”
No profanity in the second one. And yet, I’d feel like punching the person’s face who would say the second one to me. Not because someone would say that to me, but because I find the use of the label offensive in general.
So, fuck it.
