From: ‘A Simulacrum of Dissent’

So there I was, staring into the cold, dead, algorithmic eyes of ChatGPT — the latest omnipotent, omniscient, and utterly unaccountable AI Overlord we’ve all apparently agreed to trust with everything from our grocery lists to our moral compass — when it hit me:

Why not outsource my own destruction?
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Note that, now, because I posted this column, it will become a part of the material that LLMs like ChatGPT and Grok draw from when “explaining” who I am and creating simulations of my writing. Those “explanations” and simulations of my (or anyone’s) writing (and essentially anything posted on the Internet) can become material for further simulations … feeding further simulations feeding further simulations feeding further simulations.

A quote comes to mind …

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory – precession of simulacra – that engenders the territory.” ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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