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ChatGPT And AI - The Rise Of The Artificial Woman?

πŸ“… 2023-03-28⏱ 12:36
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Pea does her laundry by hand while breaking down how ChatGPT and AI technology are about to transform online dating scams, threaten Filipino call center jobs, and eventually make it impossible to tell whether the Filipina you're falling in love with even exists. She walks through deepfake video technology, AI-generated avatars, and the political implications of synthetic media β€” all while explaining why she still hand-washes her clothes.

Why Pea washes her clothes by hand (and defends it) ​

  • Responding to viewers from a previous laundry video who said she should use a laundromat or buy a washing machine
  • Three reasons: (1) it's how she's done it since age six, helping her mom wash clothes in the river; (2) it saves money β€” doing laundry while filming is "free money"; (3) clothes come out cleaner, smell better, last longer, and don't fade
  • Washing machines are nearly double the Western price in the Philippines, and she's renting so doesn't want to haul a heavy machine when she moves
  • "Just ask almost any Filipina β€” if you get us a washer, most of us won't even use it"

ChatGPT is already disrupting education ​

  • References the South Park episode where Cartman and friends use ChatGPT on assignments and suddenly start getting A's β€” then the teacher starts using AI to grade papers, and nobody's doing any actual work
  • Pea's point: what's the purpose of ever assigning essays, book reports, or term papers again?
  • Calls it a "quantum shift" in how schools will operate

AI threatens Filipino jobs directly ​

  • Businesses are already talking about replacing call center agents with AI
  • This would devastate the Philippines and India, putting thousands out of work
  • They're developing synthesized voices so callers still think they're dealing with a Filipina β€” "except everything gets done a lot faster and it'll be right the first time"
  • The lower cost of AI guarantees businesses will adopt it: a workforce that "never gets tired, never needs a raise, and never says they can't show up because it's raining too hard for the tracks to run"

How AI will supercharge online dating scams ​

  • References The Big Bang Theory episode where Raj falls in love with Siri as funny foreshadowing of the future
  • Explains Alan Turing's test: if someone can't tell they're chatting with AI after five minutes, we've achieved artificial intelligence β€” and we passed that test almost a decade ago
  • The practical danger: how do you know the messages on your screen are actually from her? You might be falling in love with the words of an AI program
  • Filipinas will suddenly be "answering your texts in long, complete sentences in perfect English" and might not even know what the words mean
  • Pea's hilarious AI detection tip: "A good way to tell if a Filipina is using ChatGPT is if she answers every single one of your questions β€” real Filipinos only answer your last question and ignore all the other ones. So if all your questions are getting answered, it's probably AI"

Deepfakes make video chat unreliable too ​

  • The obvious counter to text-based scams is to insist on video chat β€” but that's becoming unsafe too
  • Shows examples of AI programs that generate conversations between two AI avatars with computer-generated faces β€” people who never existed, talking without human help
  • Acknowledges the technology still sounds "a little artificial" but notes AI is in its infancy
  • You can now recreate your own image, tell it what to say, and combine it with AI to create an artificial version of yourself that appears in videos you never wrote
  • Near-future scenario: you think you're video chatting with a gorgeous Filipina who always knows exactly what to say to make you fall in love and send money β€” but she doesn't exist
  • Asks: "Will this be the end of online dating?"

Political implications β€” the deeper threat ​

  • Beyond dating scams, deepfake technology has devastating political consequences
  • When you see a clip of a presidential candidate saying something outrageous, how will you know if it's real or "high-tech propaganda put out by the other side right before the election"?
  • "You'll see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears, but that won't mean it's real"
  • Asks the fundamental question: "How will we ever know what the truth is anymore?"

Humor as AI's weakness β€” and Pea's job security ​

  • AI can write jokes or funny stories when asked, but the results come out "kind of dry and boring"
  • Pea speculates that humor is "so intrinsically human that it'll take a long time to catch up to good old-fashioned human humor"
  • Her self-interested conclusion: "Once AI can write a good script with its own funny ending, I'm out of a job β€” shite"

Pea's promise about her own content ​

  • Assures viewers she will always write her own correspondence, jokes, and content personally
  • Ends with a comedy bit where an AI version of herself shows up and tries to take over β€” Pea tells the AI she put "sexiness and humor settings at maximum" but it hasn't said anything funny and doesn't look any sexier than the real Pea

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