{"id":79743,"date":"2023-02-03T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=79743"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:49:46","slug":"who-will-be-the-first-ones-to-lose-their-jobs-to-chatgpt-the-confidence-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/02\/03\/who-will-be-the-first-ones-to-lose-their-jobs-to-chatgpt-the-confidence-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will be the first ones to lose their jobs to ChatGPT? The confidence men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tedgioia.substack.com\/p\/introducing-the-slickest-con-artist\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Gioia<\/a> somehow manages not to fall for the ChatGPT con:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HAL-9000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HAL-9000-207x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-79744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HAL-9000-207x600.png 207w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HAL-9000-52x150.png 52w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HAL-9000.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fast-talking hero of the TV show <em>Sneaky Pete<\/em> hates it when he&#8217;s called a <em>con man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a con man&#8221;, he insists, &#8220;I&#8217;m a <em>confidence man<\/em>.&#8221; And that&#8217;s actually how the term originated \u2014 as &#8220;confidence man&#8221;. The scam only works because of that happy and confident relationship between criminal and victim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I give them confidence,&#8221; Pete explains. &#8220;They give me money.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In the ultimate con, <em>victims don&#8217;t even know they&#8217;ve been conned<\/em>. They really think they&#8217;re sending cash to some gorgeous babe in Moscow, or bought a genuine Rolex, or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The confidence game is a real art \u2014 more than just cheating or lying. Those are boring and pathetic vices by comparison. A con job requires something grander, a fast-talking sureness that always seems to be right, even when it&#8217;s dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re caught in a lie, you just build a bigger lie to hide it.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to the subject of ChatGPT, the AI bot that&#8217;s the hottest thing in tech right now.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by my Twitter feed, ChatGPT is hotter than Wordle and Taylor Swift combined.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s even hotter than its predecessor Sam Bankman-Fried, who was doing something similar 12 months ago. ChatGPT is just better than SamFTX in every way. It can&#8217;t even be extradited \u2014 because it&#8217;s just a bot.<\/p>\n<p>People love it. People have <em>confidence<\/em> in it.<\/p>\n<p>They want to use it for everything \u2014 legal work, medical advice, term papers, or even writing Substack columns. If I believed half of what I heard about ChatGPT, I could let it take over <em>The Honest Broker<\/em>, while I sit on the beach drinking margaritas and searching for my lost shaker of salt.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s exactly what the confidence artist always does. Which is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You give people what they ask for.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t worry whether it&#8217;s true or not \u2014 because ethical scruples aren&#8217;t part of your job description.<\/li>\n<li>If you get caught in a lie, you serve up another lie.<\/li>\n<li>You always act sure of yourself \u2014 because your confidence is what seals the deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Am I exaggerating? Is the hottest AI chatbot in the world really doing this?<\/p>\n<p>Instead of offering up my opinions on this, I&#8217;ll just share some tweets from knowledgeable observers who are starting to suspect the con.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you decide for yourself whether this measures up to a confidence game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Gioia somehow manages not to fall for the ChatGPT con: The fast-talking hero of the TV show Sneaky Pete hates it when he&#8217;s called a con man. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a con man&#8221;, he insists, &#8220;I&#8217;m a confidence man.&#8221; And that&#8217;s actually how the term originated \u2014 as &#8220;confidence man&#8221;. 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