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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Charles Schifano

I ran an excerpt of Naked Lunch through ChatGPT just to be mischievous. What came back was something so sterile it isn't worth sharing. Please God don't let anyone run Charles's writing through this sterilizer.

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"that literature is nothing more than a lukewarm soup that won’t burn anyone’s tongue."

Savage in a good way.

On ChatGPT and its more advanced cousin Bing Chat, I think one reason these AIs are so disconcerting is that the future evolution of AI poses both potentially unbounded downside risk *and* potentially unbounded upside. There's no consensus on which outcome is more likely, and there won't be consensus for a while, which is also unsettling. There aren't many risks that fall into this bucket (most risks are clearly asymmetric in one direction or another--with either the downside or upside outcome having higher likelihood--and many are also bounded in magnitude on the upside or downside or both).

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“If you are uncertain about whether a question is appropriate, it's always a good idea to err on the side of caution and refrain from asking it.”

I hope you gave it an example of profanity for its training data.

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Always enjoy your connecting thoughts. Didn’t know any of that about censorship on Roald and wish people would just write their own attempts at classics then messing with the classics of others. And my main exposure to AI is grammarly, which is always hounding me to write my emails more politely ha!

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