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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.
At the time, the top result was an automatically generated “AI Overview” explaining that cavitation surgery is “focused on removing infected or dead bone tissue from the jaw.” In just the past few weeks, tech executives have repeatedly used rhetoric implying generative AI is a source of expert information: Elon Musk claimed his latest AI model is “better than PhD level” in every academic discipline, with “no exceptions.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote that automated systems are now “smarter than people in many ways” and predicted the world is “close to building digital superintelligence.” The open internet is powerful because it connects people directly to the largest archive of human knowledge the world has ever created, spanning everything from Italian Renaissance paintings to PornHub comments.
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