by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m beginning to see an alarming number of obviously very lazy people on Twitter saying they’re already pretty much handing their lives over to the OpenAI ChatGPT. They seem to wax poetically about how they’re going to be wealthy and successful just by asking the chatbot questions. They’re going to eat bonbons without a care in the world.
So, this lead me to wonder — how are these people going to get fucked over?
I suppose that after some political, economic and societal turbulence the issue will be boiled down to, “Can you ask the chatbot a knowledgeable, well-crafted question?”
While I’m sure there are uneducated, lazy morons who have a knack for asking chatbots a good question, within a generation it’s possible that there will be a cultural imperative to find who can ask the absolutely best question. Instead of lazy people being able to do nothing and make a lot of money, the very same people who run the world will now have to learn the very same things they always have learned — and have the same connections through college, etc — so they know when the output of the chatbot is wrong.
The point is — humans are humans and society is society. You have to work to be a success: being lazy never got anyone anywhere. And even then, drunk bonkers people like me who might otherwise be successful won’t be successful because the Elites think we’re weird.
Everything is horrible. Always has been, always will be. It’s just not possible for there to be N+1 happiness in life, no matter the technological revolution.
