Is authenticity no longer a “thing?”
I encountered a conversation on LinkedIn yesterday where the original post was clearly written in ChatGPTese or a dialect thereof, and every single comment was responded to in the same ChatGPTese.
When I questioned whether the original post and the responses to numerous apparently human-created comments were being written by a carbon-based entity or something else, I received a quick response, also in ChatGPTese. It didn’t at all read like there was a human behind it.
Authenticity is becoming rare, both on LinkedIn and on other social media platforms. The only input needed from a carbon-based participant is a prompt to a silicon-based assistant, then you just post the result.
Who could tell the difference? Well, just about anyone more intelligent than a starfish and who has not been blinded by the AI hype.
And now, a moment of silence in memory of our dear departed friend, Authenticity.