GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities

Two Thursdays ago, I was sitting alone in my SoMa loft, screaming at my computer. 

“Noooo wayyyyy!”

I was reading something that can only be described as magic. It was a post about how to run an effective board meeting. An excerpt describing the second step of a 3-step process:

I’m not looking to build a board of directors right now, but it provided a useful framework in case I ever did. But what made me yell out loud at my computer wasn’t the insightful process of creating a target list to recruit board members. I’m a nerd, but I’m not that much of a nerd. 

Rather, I was screaming at my computer because this document was generated entirely by a machine learning language model called GPT-3. 

Yes, that’s right. A computer created a 3-step process on how to recruit board members, all on its own. Are you yelling at your computer yet? 

While GPT-3 is not self-aware — the true test of general artificial intelligence — it fools us more than anything else ever created. It can deceive us so well that it will forever change the nature of public digital spaces.