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by dTal 1166 days ago
What we are seeing is the inevitable backlash against a program that at first glance can do literally everything you ask it to in plain English.

We don't exactly know what it can and can't do, a property which in a computer program at any rate is deeply mysterious and unusual. It initially gives the appearance of being a human which knows everything. This leads a lot of people to angrily declare that its appearance is deceptive, and in searching for words to describe in exactly what way it falls short, they incorporate flawed intuition on what it is capable of. So there's a lot of back and forth right now as we collectively swap memes to try and make sense of such a dramatic development.