AI models like ChatGPT use text from the internet, but the internet in the future will be more and more full of content generated by AI models like ChatGPT. Will that make the world a "closed loop -- ChatGPT all the way down"?
"Will that homogenize our writing, our thinking, and ultimately our ways of being?"
"Stylistically, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT might push our writing to become more sanitized. As you've probably noticed, they have a tendency to talk in a bland, conformist, Wikipedia-esque way."
"ChatGPT also privileges a 'proper' English that erases other vernaculars or languages, and the ways of seeing the world that they encode."
"Culturally, ChatGPT might reinforce a Western perspective." "If you use the models to suggest breakfast foods, they will overwhelmingly suggest Western breakfasts."
"We may become overreliant on the tech, so much so that some of our imaginative or cognitive 'muscles' gradually become weaker for lack of use."
"Asking LLMs for help at the earliest stages of our creative process will yield a certain answer that inevitably primes us to think in a certain direction."
"By the last week of that month, Bing featured three 'conversation styles,' and I had to choose between them: precise, balanced, or creative. When I chose the creative style, it answered in more off-the-wall, less predictable ways."
What happens when ChatGPT starts to feed on its own writing?
