> Remember when the Internet was new and no-one believed anything on it?
Is this true?
Re:Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
by teaearlgraycold on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:42PM
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I remember my parents and teachers indicating this, and me and my friends thinking “then why do they trust TV, books, etc.?”
Re:Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
by wewtyflakes on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:48PM
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This is true; it was a almost a meme before memes existed, as to say "I saw it on the internet so it must be true!", as a way to teasingly highlight how non-credible it was seen at the time.
"Kilroy was here" was a meme before "meme" was coined. I don't think the phrase "before memes existed" has meaning.
Re:Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
by wewtyflakes on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:03AM
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Sure. Maybe better if I qualified it with "as they exist as we know them today"
Yes. "Anyone can write anything on there! There's no way to trust it." About halfway through high school they started letting us cite websites, and it was a big deal and considered very forward thinking.
yes. I remember boomers shitting on Wikipedia around 2004, but fast forward to present day and the same people would cite it.
Then, learning what to believe became a marketable skill for many people?
Then society fundamentally changed because not everyone learned that skill?
This is just that again. Gen Z will joke about their millennial/Gen X bosses believing anything the AI tells them and it will probably lead to some sort of mainstream conspiracy that Jackie O herself is running it or something (to those reading: please don't take this idea)