{"id":18801,"date":"2025-05-13T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/chatgpt-may-be-polite-but-its-not-cooperating-with-you\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:38:12","slug":"chatgpt-may-be-polite-but-its-not-cooperating-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/chatgpt-may-be-polite-but-its-not-cooperating-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT may be polite, but it\u2019s not cooperating with you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaborators<\/p>\n

After publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror <\/em>episode. \u201cVauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT<\/a> to help craft her new book \u2018Searches,\u2019\u201d one of them read<\/a>. \u201cTo tell her own story, this acclaimed novelist turned to ChatGPT,\u201d said another<\/a>. \u201cVauhini Vara examines selfhood with assistance from ChatGPT,\u201d went a third<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The publications describing Searches<\/a> this way were reputable and fact-based. But their descriptions of my book \u2013 and of ChatGPT\u2019s role in it \u2013 didn\u2019t match my own reading. It was true that I had put my ChatGPT conversations in the book, but my goal had been critique, not collaboration. In interviews and public events, I had repeatedly cautioned against using large language models<\/a> such as the ones behind ChatGPT for help with self-expression. Had these headline writers misunderstood what I\u2019d written? Had I?<\/p>\n

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\nBig tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaborators
\nAfter publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. \u201cVauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book \u2018Searches,\u2019\u201d one of them read. \u201cTo tell her own story, this acclaimed novelist turned to ChatGPT,\u201d said another. \u201cVauhini Vara examines selfhood with assistance from ChatGPT,\u201d went a third.
\nThe publications describing Searches this way were reputable and fact-based. But their descriptions of my book \u2013 and of ChatGPT\u2019s role in it \u2013 didn\u2019t match my own reading. It was true that I had put my ChatGPT conversations in the book, but my goal had been critique, not collaboration. In interviews and public events, I had repeatedly cautioned against using large language models such as the ones behind ChatGPT for help with self-expression. Had these headline writers misunderstood what I\u2019d written? Had I? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaborators After publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. \u201cVauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book …<\/p>\n

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