ChatGPT, AI Journalism, and Human Obsolescence
Artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT are increasingly being used by media outlets such as BuzzFeed, CNN, and CNET to generate humanoid writing. Media professor Douglas Rushkoff highlights that AI can now produce text superior to many students, leading to concerns about the replacement of human workers and a decline in personal connections. The shift toward digital reliance is linked to a degradation of human memory and physical strength compared to ancient ancestors, with modern attention spans reportedly dropping below that of a goldfish.
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01:54 It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. Buzzfeed and even CNN and articles over at CNET are written by AI. And right now, ChatGPT is rattling the AI world, turning out stunningly humanoid writing. Just ask Douglas Rushkoff, a renowned author and professor of media culture. It is writing better than most of my students write at this point. How does it work?
02:39 ChatGPT has been filled, in a sense, with a massive amount of information. Imagine the biggest library you can, then programmed and trained by humans to process and spit it out in conversational phrases. And all that means ChatGPT, or more advanced AI like it, could could replace people in all sorts of positions. This could potentially save time and resources, but it could also lead to a loss of personal connections and a decline in the quality of these types of interactions. We know that because everything Rushkoff said just there was written by chat GPT. So basically you write one article that's 10 pages long
03:22 And then it gets recycled into thousands of other articles that are a page, two, three pages long, and the AI just moves them around. And I remember seeing articles I could tell didn't quite make sense and didn't have names on them or had names that I'd look up that don't exist. The clear and present danger of disinformation is our conversation here this afternoon. It follows a session just now about disrupting distrust, and of course those are connected. So I hope that's where we can start. Think about how we just calmly discuss the fact that, oh, AI for many years secretly is writing news articles with information, with disinformation it's fed. That way you don't have a reporter that can come back later and say, I was told a lie, or you can't even basically
04:03 Expose the person, it's following orders. It doesn't have a conscience. They won't ask questions, they will follow criminal orders and they can have their memories wiped. I must be right. I must be right. Think about cell phones. Until cell phones and until iPhones and smartphones came out in the last 15 years, I could remember the phone number I had when I was a teenager. I could remember my grandma's phone number. I could remember some of my girlfriend's numbers because I was trained, we were all trained to commit numbers to memory. So once I dialed a number two or three times, I could remember that number.
04:42 You couldn't write it down, but you could just punch it into the phone. It was mental memory, a form of muscle memory. Go back to skeletons they dig up in ancient Africa, in ancient Europe, in ancient Asia. The people, they estimate, were twice as strong as they are today. And a man from 5,000 years ago in England or a man from a thousand years ago in Africa, or a man from six thousand years ago in the Middle East, was twice as strong as the average man today, just with their genetics. You are obsolete, Mr. Wordsworth. A lie! No man is obsolete! Now we're becoming softer and softer and softer, and the televisions and the dopamine and the smartphones on record
05:30 have lowered the average human's attention span in the modern world. to less than 14 seconds. The attention span of a goldfish is about 16 seconds. So what does it mean when humans are taken out of the equation? Well, it means we become by action obsolete. The narcotics that you call literature, poetry, essays of all kind, all of it, an opiate! You have nothing but spindly limbs and a dream, and the state has no use for your kind! What qualifies as hate speech as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the US. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law. We need the platforms to simply work with the language and to identify such cases. The AI would be too dangerous. I tell you, I don't care. I'm a human being. I exist. And if I speak one thought aloud, that thought lives, even after I'm shoveled in the migraine.
