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Honestly, We Should Just Destroy ChatGPT

It exists because humans will it to exist. What if we stopped?

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Samuel D. James
Feb 03, 2023
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Granting that AI software such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, MusicLM, and others represent a serious encroachment on human creativity, why not just destroy them? These are programs invented by humans and formed by code. If the humans put the code in the trash bin—if they refuse to assemble it, preserve it, or use it—the software wields no power over the creative arts, higher education, or anything else.

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