[ExI] H+ Academy Discussion - AI Pause vs. Proceed

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] H+ Academy Discussion - AI Pause vs. Proceed

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 15:43, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On the contrary Gadersd.  GPT-4 can write sermons, but there is a
particular brand of classical sermons on which GPT-4 contains material
offensive or foreign to the target audience.  That target audience is where
the money is.  I have heard if you pass the hat in modern congregations, you
are lucky if you get your hat back.  Audiences for classical sermons pay.
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> spike
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>...That is just saying what you have to do with everything that ChatGPT
writes.
Give it the specific prompts for what you want, it will write 10 pages
around that subject, then you have to do the manual bit of proofreading and
editing to remove 'hallucinations' and parts offensive to your target
audience.  Job done!

BillK

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Ja, well...eh.... maybe.  BillK, creating a classical sermon is not only
trimming out the hallucinations and foreign matter, it is all about
including a bunch of stuff that I can guaran-damn-tee you ChatGPT knows
nothing about (I experimented with it.)  There is material in that fishbowl
(still there (the four long tables still where I left them four decades
ago)) which is not in GPT's training database (and shouldn't be.)  

That stuff might not be necessary of course, but for the specialized
classical sermon audience I am thinking of (the pay-dirt believers) it
helps.

The more I think about it however, the less ethical the whole notion sounds.
I walked away from a career in the ministry for ethical reasons a long time
ago, and I still have a conscience four decades later.   This would be
taking advantage of good people, of their ignorance in a way.  I might argue
with myself that theirs is willful ignorance.  Many of the consumers of that
genre have a bitter determination to maintain that solidly-grounded
ignorance, and they are good at filtering out stuff that doesn't belong in
their world view.  

But I would know that ethically the pastor-bot notion is not climbing out of
the yellow.  Currently the needle on my ethics-o-meter is pointing in the
orange zone and gradually drifting redward.

spike