High-tech Pinocchios

The wooden conversation faculties of Generative AIs are good enough to fool most people. Don't be one of those fools.

Lately there's been an abundance of both alarmist and opportunistic clickbait articles about “artificial intelligence” (AI), well, specially a subset of it called generative AI — something I wrote about some time back. The emotional hooks used in these clickbait articles are potent ones that play into people's anxieties and greed surrounding, on one end, our specie’s continued relevance in the tech-fuelled chattery society that we inhabit today and, on the other, the “bounty” of money making opportunities on offer on the back of this once esoteric technology now made widely-available.