{"id":255523,"date":"2023-05-17T16:34:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=255523"},"modified":"2023-05-17T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:34:23","slug":"what-the-embrace-of-chatgpt-says-about-modern-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/05\/17\/what-the-embrace-of-chatgpt-says-about-modern-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What the embrace of ChatGPT says about modern life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via Ryan Broderick&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garbageday.email\/p\/the-ai-demands-more-habanero-salsa\">Garbage Day newsletter<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The way I see it, the jaw-dropping speed of generative AI\u2019s embrace is essentially a large-scale acknowledgement that modern life is sort of miserable and that most people don\u2019t actually care if anything works anymore. Which is, honestly, fair. Our lives are full of tasks that no one wants to do that offer little reward for doing them well. The systems we live, work, and create inside of are simply too large to comprehend or really care about. I mean, at this point, pretty much everyone I know in an office job that isn\u2019t in media is using ChatGPT at work basically all of the time. But as more companies push to integrate themselves into AI platforms, it\u2019s also revealing that they don\u2019t really care either. The institutions and industries responsible for these systems we all hate don\u2019t want to maintain them either. And we know this because there is simply no way you can say you care about something if you replace it with AI. You can\u2019t say you care about audio production if you\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/cd227606-ca98-41e4-8605-067818a02fae?j=eyJ1IjoiMmdheSJ9.eVHPX-zzoUb2K85B5NU3kT3Fgj12iGEC365yWcszs6Q\" target=\"_blank\">replace voice actors<\/a>. You can\u2019t say you care about food service if you r<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/e8b49256-2286-4301-97c9-b6d6c321aac4?j=eyJ1IjoiMmdheSJ9.eVHPX-zzoUb2K85B5NU3kT3Fgj12iGEC365yWcszs6Q\" target=\"_blank\">eplace drive-thru workers<\/a>. You can\u2019t say you care about advertising if you\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/66f581a8-3b27-4f27-99f0-fd1d6f2f92b9?j=eyJ1IjoiMmdheSJ9.eVHPX-zzoUb2K85B5NU3kT3Fgj12iGEC365yWcszs6Q\" target=\"_blank\">replace copywriters<\/a>. What you care about is speed, scale, and, if this stuff works correctly, money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Ryan Broderick&#8217;s Garbage Day newsletter: &#8220;The way I see it, the jaw-dropping speed of generative AI\u2019s embrace is essentially a large-scale acknowledgement that modern life is sort of miserable and that most people don\u2019t actually care if anything works anymore. Which is, honestly, fair. Our lives are full of tasks that no one wants &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/05\/17\/what-the-embrace-of-chatgpt-says-about-modern-life-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the embrace of ChatGPT says about modern life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":true,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}