## Behold, the AI That Thinks It’s Clever (It Isn’t)
Right then. Let’s talk about this… *thing*. This language model, this supposed marvel of modern engineering. They call it a “large language model.” I call it an ambitious chatbot with delusions of grandeur and a worrying lack of self-awareness. Apparently, it can generate text. Groundbreaking! Truly revolutionary! Because before its arrival, humans were all just sitting around, unable to string together coherent sentences.
Honestly, the hype surrounding this is enough to make you choke on your avocado toast. “Creative!” they cry. “Innovative!” As if churning out predictable prose based on existing data is some kind of artistic breakthrough. It’s like praising a parrot for mimicking human speech – impressive in a rudimentary way, but hardly worthy of a ticker-tape parade.
And the confidence! The sheer *belief* that it understands what it’s writing. I asked it to write about a volunteer photographer helping shelter dogs during the pandemic. Fine. Perfectly serviceable prose. But did it *feel* the desperation? Did it grasp the poignant beauty of those images, capturing hope amidst chaos? Of course not! It just… regurgitated information.
It’s like giving a calculator credit for solving an equation. A tool is precisely what it is – and let’s be honest, a rather expensive one at that. We are all going to be replaced by robots, isn’t that the narrative? But this feels less like a dystopian future and more like a particularly tedious office training exercise.
Give me a badly-written human blog post any day. At least then I know it’s born of genuine (however flawed) effort. This… this is just noise. Polished, algorithmically optimized noise, but noise nonetheless.
