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I Helped Invent Generative AI and I Know When You’re Using ChatGPT
Oh, Also, It’s Working Against You
Look. Here’s the deal. I was part of a team that invented and released the first commercially available automated content/natural language generation/generative AI platform. Back in 2010.
I have a patent. I’m incredibly proud of it. And I also apologize. Because I predicted this would happen.
But more importantly, the reason I bring it up is that once we got the technology working and lined up customers like Yahoo Fantasy Football and the Associated Press, I spent most of my time, for a long time, working on algorithms and models and code to make the content sound less like it was generated by a machine.
I think we did a great job with this. Like we had decent individualized jokes where the customer let us write decent individualized jokes. You have no idea how hard that is.
I’m not falling for the banana in the mainframe.
But having done it, man, it pains me to tell you this.
I know when you’re using ChatGPT.
And what’s more, it’s not hard to figure out.
And in a lot of cases, it’s kinda making people look foolish.
