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Dave's avatar

I use GPT a lot for online advocacy in text chats.

I spent a lot of time training it to my specific use, standing up for the negative rights of animals and homing in on anthropocentric speciesism.

I use it mostly to respond to people when I don't feel able to type quickly enough or if I feel I might not say something in quite the right way.

GPT always creates a non-confrontational response even to nasty trolls who spit venom and abuse.

I always read GPT's posts before I post them, and I often change things, and help educate it to improve for the future. It updates it's memory and does learn.

It will often get a bit hooked when giving a response to someone who has tried hard to avoid my questions and veer off at a tangent, but I take GPT's response and say, 'can you give me that again, not avoiding their point, but clearly pointing out that they dodged and bringing it back to the main point of the topic'. And like lightening, GPT alters it's response to do exactly as I asked.

It's invaluable.

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Helen Lloyd's avatar

100% - I believe that misinformation & disinformation really has nowhere to hide now.

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Phoenix's avatar

People are always against emerging technology, but the passage of time inevitably vindicates the technology.

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David Ramms's avatar

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts. I agree, it does seem to be that way. When it comes to technology, it's usually a case of get on board or get left behind. As animal advocates, we can't afford to be left behind.

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Ani's avatar

And when global warming from carbon emissions from all the energy being wasted by training and employing AI finally kills all the cows you won't have to advocate for them anymore because they'll be dead from climate change and pollution!!!

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David Ramms's avatar

Hey Ani, I covered some environmental points in the post near the end.

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Ani's avatar

I think global warming and the plight of animals is a much less pressing issue than human rights and suffering

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Bethany Sandoval's avatar

AI is art theft. People aren’t mad that Miyazaki’s style is being copied, it’s that it’s being copied via a machine that doesn’t understand anything about what makes art such an incredible form of human expression. That’s what Miyazaki meant when he said it was disgusting. You know that there’s a difference between someone being inspired by a style and making something and a computer scanning images and spitting something out. And you know there’s a difference between using AI to help animal activism and hopping on a trend to fit in. This is disappointing.

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joe b's avatar

thank you for saying this. finding so many vegans mindlessly using AI art, having no respect for the artists it copies and for the environmental impact it leaves. no other social advocacy group i'm a part of does this. i totally get using GPT and other LLMs to quickly synthesize pro-vegan arguments or to find sources that support our way of life, but we all need to stand against AI imitation of one of the few pure forms of human expression left.

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