Everybody Please Calm Down About ChatGPT

One major factor may be that the public is interacting with it and manipulating it to generate all sorts of interesting outputs, while Google hasn't released its model. From there, the larger and more public discussion of ChatGPT gives way to a longstanding tradition in our technology sector to use "artificial intelligence" as cover for financing anything but. Many instances of supposedly algorithmic or automated technologies are, when you look into the inner workings, actually human labor disguised as digital artifice--what researcher (and co-host of our joint podcast This Machine Kills) Jathan Sadowski calls "potemkin AI." Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs eager to rationalize and profit from inflated valuations, are quick to boost features that purport to reduce labor costs or optimize efficiency, but in reality simply rely on humans subjected to deplorable labor conditions in service of this mirage.