How ChatGPT Will Strain a Political System in Peril

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In November, Open AI introduced ChatGPT, a large language model that can generate text that gives the impression of human intelligence, spontaneity, and surprise. Users of ChatGPT have described it as a revolutionary technology that will change every aspect of how we interact with text and with one another. Joshua Rothman, the ideas editor of newyorker.com, joins Tyler Foggatt to talk about the many ways that ChatGPT may be deployed in the realm of politics—from campaigning and lobbying to governance. American political life has already been profoundly altered by the Internet, and the effects of ChatGPT, Rothman says, could be even more profound.

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1:12.7	Okay, so I've made an open AI account and I am getting ready to write a prompt for chat
1:19.4	GPT.
1:20.0	So any advice, Josh, that you have on how to form this question so that it actually gives us
1:24.9	what we want is welcome.
1:26.3	Right now I have them write an introduction to a podcast interview about how AI will affect political discourse online and
1:33.0	beyond. I think it will work better if you suggest doing it in a certain style like in the style
1:42.7	of NPR or even in the style of the New Yorker. TatsyPT does better when you give it some person that it can riff on or some voice that it can impersonate. I'll do in the style of the New Yorker. Oh, and you have to say the New Yorker magazine. Otherwise, it will think it's just New Yorkers. Oh, gosh, yeah. It's like a Brooklyn accent. Yeah. Right, like the Martin Scorsese version of the intro.
2:02.9	Yeah.
2:05.7	Okay, it's typing in front of me.
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