danmcquillan (@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social) on Twitter: “new blog post: ‘We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it'”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/26
Some 3 years after ChatGPT was introduced, I wonder if this still holds for current language and knowledge models:
[Wayback/Archive] We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.
Large language models (LLMs) like the GPT family learn the statistical structure of language by optimising their ability to predict missing words in sentences (as in ‘The cat sat on the [BLANK]’). Despite the impressive technical ju-jitsu of transformer models and the billions of parameters they learn, it’s still a computational guessing game. ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter. The language model has no idea what it’s talking about because it has no idea about anything at all. It’s more of a bullshitter than the most egregious egoist you’ll ever meet, producing baseless assertions with unfailing confidence because that’s what it’s designed to do. It’s a bonus for the parent corporation when journalists and academics respond by generating acres of breathless coverage, which works as PR even when expressing concerns about the end of human creativity.
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On Twitter with some the most important response thread:
- [Wayback/Archive] danmcquillan (@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social) on Twitter: “new blog post: ‘We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it’
danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html#ChatGPT” - [Wayback/Archive] Seth Lamancusa on Twitter: “@danmcquillan Love the post, could you elaborate on AGI being inseparable from hierarchy? Also curious as to the rejection of “AI Realism”. I’m not sure I believe that an approach like “resisting AI” will be effective, no matter the intellect and intentions of those proposing it.”
- [Wayback/Archive] danmcquillan (@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social) on Twitter: “@sethlamancusa hi seth, all points addressed in
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai👍”
[Wayback/Archive] Bristol University Press | Resisting AI – An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, By Dan McQuillan
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Baert on Twitter: “Veel goeie commentaar op #ChatGPT de laatste dagen.”
–jeroen
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