Episode 8.29: ChatGPT and I share this: the first time we say something may be the first we think it

Sometimes we prepare things in advance by writing them down, discussing them with other people, drafting them re-drafting them, editing them and finally we let them loose upon the world. I suspect that when chatGPT responds to a user’s question, it is probably the first time that that particular concatenation of words and sentences has ever arisen for it or in the world. The way I record these podcasts is just the same, for good or ill.