Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT

Re:Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT by Oxidation on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:49PM (#33938749)

I'm still completely amazed you can pluck the signal of cohesive language out from under the noise floor of large-corpus statistics. It's like something from Blindsight.

I thought code-division multiplexing's ability to pull a signal out from under a hundred dB of noise was magic, but this is far more unexpected, and I don't think you can honestly say anyone 10 years ago would have suggested this level of (linguistic) accuracy, speed and accessibility and not get laughed out of the room. "Ha ha, pull the other one, the novel-writing machines were in 1984, that's just an old science-fiction trope"[1].

[1]: It even used the word Ingsoc that's not in the prompt, and made the contextually correct connection to the Junior Anti-Sex League: https://pastebin.com/GQR9aRKT

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Re:Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT by robocat on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:07PM (#33939660)

Re [1] - ChatGPT can be The Versificator - the pulp generation device in 1984 - the versificator producing content for the proletariat such as tabloids (stories on sports, crime and astrology), films, low quality paperback novels, and lyrics. It seemed like an SF idea when I read the book, but now it is almost plausible, wow.

[2] See sidebar of https://ministryofversification.blogspot.com/2009/03/1984-bb...

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Re:Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT by Oxidation on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:18AM (#33942547)

I would wager that a lot of that kind of journalism mentioned is already automated. Certainly a lot of business "prosification" is.

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