Fostering Human Connection by Emotional Outsourcing?

<p>On Feb. 16, 2023, many of Vanderbilt University students felt sick and disgusted when they received an&nbsp;<a href="https://t.e2ma.net/message/ul182h/m74zooz" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">email</a>&nbsp;from their Associate Dean of the EDI office.</p> <p>Why?</p> <h2>What Turned a Caring Letter into a Careless Word Jumble?</h2> <p>The culprit was a short note at the bottom of the email that turned what seemed like a deeply compassionate letter into empty sentences: &ldquo;Paraphrase from OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, February 15, 2023.&rdquo;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/1*YOPR1mY6xmRDt1iV72lIgQ.png" style="height:288px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Screenshot of the email (<a href="https://t.e2ma.net/message/ul182h/m74zooz" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">source</a>)</p> <p>Yes, the task of crafting the email had been handed over to ChatGPT.</p> <p><img alt="A laptop screen displaying the OpenAI webpage “ChatGPT:…” and purple striped chart. The laptop is against the background of dark brown." src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/0*W-I3ka9VbyhzGnDC" style="height:467px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo by&nbsp;Rolf van Root&nbsp;on&nbsp;Unsplash</p> <p>For those who need a refresher, ChatGPT has become synonymous with AI and large language models nowadays.</p> <p>It was trained on a vast amount of human texts online, and is adept at predicting the next word in a sequence, making it exceptionally skilled in human language processing tasks.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@treelunar/fostering-human-connection-by-emotional-outsourcing-907cf0dbcd10">Visit Now</a></p>