I admit I am naive and gullible sometimes. You see, I default to credulous. I don’t really like to lie, so I default to assuming folks are generally honest. Actually, there’s a story here: when I was around 7-8 years old, I used to chit chat with the school bully. He would often ask me if I had seen some movie I hadn’t seen cuz it was PG-13. I would _always_ say I had indeed seen it. However, a few years later, when I got to middle school, I consciously decided to not lie anymore. From my perspective, it was far too much hassle with a limited upside and major downside risks. And so then and there, I made the choice to not lie, which is always better long-term.
I mention this because I was just reading yet another article about questionable, quite possibly straight-up deceptive, practices at OpenAI. This sort of thing irritates me cuz the company proclaims to have essentially discovered how to create god in a digital format, but it simultaneously engages in very questionable accounting. The discrepancy seems very earthly. Moreover, this canard that at some point, they’ll just ask ChatGPT how to monetize ChatGPT is — pardon my French — fucking stupid. Like, firstly, why not simply ask ChatGPT how to make money now. It all stinks to high heaven, if you ask me. If OpenAI wants to proclaim it has made god in a box, cool. That’s its right. However, I’m not so sure there’d be a profit motive in that case. I mean, wouldn’t god be better than money? This doesn’t add up. Or, as the saying goes, “the math doesn’t math.”
As a gullible dude, I will defend defaulting to believing people. However, I remain discerning and critical, and I recommend others stay discerning, as well. Give people the benefit of the doubt — sure. But don’t abandon logic and reason and critical thinking altogether. Those things are very valuable, particularly when so many people are actively trying to deceive others.