ChatGPT is bullshit
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 08 June 2024
- Publisher
- Ethics and Information Technology
- Volume / pages
- Volume 26, article number 38, (2024)
- Retrieved
- Jan 1, 2025
2 memes from this reference
ChatGPT is a bullshit machine
The idea of ChatGPT as a bullshit machine is a helpful one when combined with the distinction between hard and soft bullshit. Reaching again for the example of the dodgy student paper: we’ve all, I take it, marked papers where it was obvious that a dictionary or thesaurus had been deployed with a crushing lack of…
Evaluating ChatGPT as a Bullshit Machine
The structure of the paper is as follows: in the first section, we outline how ChatGPT and similar LLMs operate. Next, we consider the view that when they make factual errors, they are lying or hallucinating: that is, deliberately uttering falsehoods, or blamelessly uttering them on the basis of misleading input…