The Oscar-nominated short film “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” could be the name for Silicon Valley’s latest gift to Western civilization — and to many practitioners of misinformation.
The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been heralded as if it’s a techno-counterpart to the steam engine or telegraph. But it may also unwittingly generate fakery that cons millions of people and affect the American classroom more than path-breaking educators like Horace Mann and John Dewey.
Axios, which prides itself on “going deeper” than its news media competitors, waxed solicitous the other day: “ChatGPT has captured the public imagination in a way the tech world hasn’t seen since the debut of the iPhone in 2007.”
