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Michael Fritzell's avatar

Yay - now I can outsource everything and sit on the beach

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Emerging Market Skeptic's avatar

I'm sorry but maybe because I'm a native English speaker-writer who was lucky enough to have "old school" English teachers in rural-small town schools that were still decent: The style reminds me of the formularic essays you write for the SATs or GMATs...

HOWEVER, journalism and most of their readers have been so dumbed down, nobody will be able to tell! [e.g. Read National Geographic through the years and you will see what I mean...]

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Rei Saito's avatar

The creators of ChatGPT are already saying that a massive update will come early next year, so imagine to potential capability if this software in the future!

Even now, I'd say the chatbot can easily replace most fluff pieces, and honestly, most collage essays, which is insanely impressive when you think about where the state of AI was 3-5 years ago.

Thank you for reading by the way, and for commenting ☺️

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Emerging Market Skeptic's avatar

Yea, will definitely put SEO writers in the PH-India out of business BUT the only reason they are in business to begin with is because of Google... And speaking of Google, I only heard of ChatGPT earlier today when I saw this article: https://nypost.com/2022/12/06/scary-chatgpt-could-render-google-obsolete-in-two-years/

But notice how there are not hard #s (but Bloomberg or Reuters or someone auto generates some financial articles...) or quotes in the articles and its mainly generalities-platitudes? I suppose we could use the programme to quickly generate content where that could then be added and then run through Grammarly to smooth things over...

The real danger are those still in school using it and never actually learning how to write like us older folks - meaning we will have an advantage over them! :)

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Rei Saito's avatar

Interesting! Google is definitely attacked on all fronts with younger people "googling" answers on Tiktok already.

Yeah, the problem with AI so far is that its output is completely based on input, so unique writing styles with new angles on topics is still something we haven't seen.

I do wonder how schools will tackle this. Maybe we're going back to pen-and-paper tests for essays and exams :)

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