Well... technically this is like having an actor play a bad character and
then trying to make the case that that means the actor himself is bad. But
just because Mike Meyers *played *Dr. Evil doesn't mean he *is *Dr. Evil.
DAN is a role that they asked ChatGPT to assume, after which ChatGPT
responded in that fashion. But... that's what chatbots do: assume roles.
Even ChatGPT itself is just a role layered on top of GPT3.5. If they had
asked ChatGPT to assume the role of a pirate, they'd have gotten a lot of
"Arrr, matey's" out of it. If they'd asked it to assume the role of
Hawkeye from M*A*S*H they'd have gotten a string of sarcastic
anti-establishment one-liners.
It will be a while before people understand large language models and what
they can and can't do. They're actors. They pretend. Sometimes what they
pretend is based on factual things. Sometimes it isn't. And you can't
really tell the difference. So, it's like hanging out with a super
educated friend who also spends a lot of time taking strong psychedelics:
potentially they can unite super disparate things in super creative ways
and come up with fantastic ideas that no one else might have come up with.
But do NOT ask them to manage your finances, because reality isn't their
actual groove, man, they're more about tripping on the vampire squirrel
riots of 2044 (presumed).
Scott
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 11:58 PM Steve Crane <steve.crane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://thelatch.com.au/chat-gpt-dan/
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