‘Black Swan’ Author Taleb Blasts ChatGPT’s Fundamental AI Mechanism

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a scholar and author of popular books “The Black Swan”, “Antifragile”, etc, continues to pour criticism over OpenAI’s flagship product ChatGPT.

He has basically repeated the critique he made at the AI chatbot earlier this month. Taleb is just one out of many notable figures who have been slamming GhatGPT recently.

How ChatGPT answers questions when it has no idea about the answer. pic.twitter.com/RBimX5hCop

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 27, 2024

Taleb and Ripple CTO slam ChatGPT and AI overall

Taleb has blasted ChatGPT for its inability to provide sensible answers to users’ questions sometimes. In the comments, users’ opinions split – while some said that ChatGPT is nothing but a text generator, others started asking Taleb why he is being constantly critical only of ChatGPT but not of Microsoft’s Copilot AI, for example.

The “Antifragile” author did not respond to that. Earlier today, Ripple’s CTO and one of the XRP Ledger creators David Schwartz also took to his X account to criticize AI.

Quora is absolutely littered with official AI-generated slop. But this example is so bad, I had to share it: pic.twitter.com/COd8y7j7hr

— David «JoelKatz» Schwartz (@JoelKatz) June 26, 2024

He did not slam ChatGPT in particular, though. He shared that a popular online platform for asking questions and getting answers to them, Quora, has become largely influenced by AI. Here’s what Schwartz tweeted: “Quora is absolutely littered with official AI-generated slop.” The Ripple CTO then shared several examples of AI-generated questions from that platform.

Edward Snowden’s crucial ChatGPT warning

The renowned US whistleblower and former analyst of the NSA Edward Snowden shared his take on the move made by OpenAI earlier this month. The company announced the hiring of former NSA boss Paul Nakasone and appointing him to OpenAI’s board of directors.

Snowden warned his X followers against using ChatGPT, since he believes that if the former head of the NSA is now part of it (and Snowden is famous for criticising this agency heavily, in particular for accessing personal correspondences in messaging apps and spying on users), the use of ChatGPT is becoming unsafe.

Elon Musk criticized Apple this month for announcing their cooperation deal with OpenAI and integrating ChatGPT on the iOS level on all of its devices. Musk tweeted that he will have to ban all Apple-made devices in his companies, including bans for visitors to carry them in – they will have to leave the Apple gadgets as they enter office buildings. The tech magnate believes that ChatGPT will collect user data to store it on OpenAI servers for further illegal use.

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