Critique of the AI Revolution

Recently I decided to see what all the Hoopla is about with ChatGPT

Robert Carlson
7 min readJul 15, 2023

I downloaded the AIPRN plugin for Chrome and gave it a task. The results were pedestrian at best. It paralleled the slow decline in written language and comprehension by the general public.

Impressionistic Representation of the Universe

I prompted the AI to write an article about my photography collection and the platform it is on. The system seemed to know what ClickaSnap.com is. It was described quite accurately and with glowing praise.

My user account, Lens4anEye, was completely misinterpreted. The article was written in the First Person Plural as in “At Lens4anEye we strive… “etc etc. The references were such that I seemed to be an entire team who would identify, select and promote exceptionalism of highly qualified photographers around the globe.

As a random person being presented with the content thusly created I would have no idea that most of the text was “boilerplate” language there but to fill column space.

I was reminded of my 5th Grade writing assignments where I was supposed to use at least 3 references to write a factual paper on some subject. I always liked to write about Natural Resources. Hence my collection of The Natural Resources of.. Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Spain et al. My “training sources” were the…

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Robert Carlson
Robert Carlson

Written by Robert Carlson

Robert Carlson is a writer & photographer who has been active since the mid-1960s. His writing spans many genre & can be found in venues across the Internets.

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