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The scary thing about this reply is I cannot tell whether it was written by a human or by Bing trying to gaslight me into believing that factual correctness is not important. It reads just like Bing trying to explain why the year is 2022 or Bing did not say that it said the Eagles won the Super Bowl.

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The scary part is that people can start dismissing the opinions that they don't agree as "AI generated".

People have been dismissing opinions they didn't like for ~25,000 years, for a very long list of reasons. Dismissing "AI" for that reason feels kinda like not having one more key on your keyring - because a kid could stick the new key into an electrical outlet.

Dismissing opinions is on thing, dismissing opinions thinking that you are not interacting with humans is why some people are huge a-holes on the internet despite being decent people IRL.

Maybe I'm an old cynic...but I already (quietly) dismiss most plausibly-human opinions on the internet, because "advertising", "clickbait", "ignorant", "echo chamber", "troll", "spam", "obvious & boring", "not my religion", "immature". Etc. etc. etc.

"Is it from an AI?" seems about as important to me as validating the SPF record behind some "I am assistant to Nigerian Minister of Oil, and need your help..." email message. Who would actually react differently to that message, on the basis of "SPF is valid"?

Yep, in old generations there was this thing about internet being a new frontier where you can nerd down and it wasn't a place for "normal" people and whatever happens online doesn't have IRL consequences. Some of them turned into unbearable a-holes, however newer generations have another kind of relationship with the internet where they are not assuming that everyone is a neckbeard and there are no women on the internet etc. Instead, they are much less anonymous, use real names and are not in the delusion that there are no real world consequences. It's the only way the normies to stick around, despite having orders of magnitude more people online the trolling is not as pervasive as it used to be.

There is a hilarious irony to this. In all the classic scifi, an opinion is usually trusted because it came from AI, though often as things progress the AI is eventually distrusted. Have we managed to side step this entire thing be ruining humanity's perception of AI with ChatGPT and Bing?

I think the problem is not that it's written by AI but written by AI to serve some people's interests. Therefore it's not organic due to the intent but it could have been organic if it was written by AI serving its own interests.

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