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   Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester to All   
   Re: Bill Gates says AI will replace doct   
   12 May 25 14:36:42   
   
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   From: Spamassassin@irrt.De   
      
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   On Thu, 27 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?.../v wrote:   
   "It's a sham.  ChatGPT fooled me for a long time then I asked it these    
   questions:   
      
   What is the difference between slate and shale   
   What is the difference between shale and slate   
      
   I was emphasizing a priority that I perceived and it was reversed in the first   
   answer produced from what I wanted which perked up my ears. Notice that the two   
   answers are considerably different, as it does place some sort of priority   
   itself that is not consistent throughout the response...   
      
   "The meek shall inherit the Earth but not its mineral rights." -- J. Paul Getty   
      
   I've also seen it answer exactly the opposite question from ones I've asked   
   before.  Not exactly reassuring."   
      
   I wrote to LinkedIn circa 4 weeks ago:   
   "Cátia insightfully wrote on Medium.com - "And language is never    
   innocent.   
      
   To write with a machine trained primarily in English is to confront a    
   linguistic imperialism so deeply embedded that it becomes infrastructure.    
   [. . .]   
      
   [. . .]   
      
   To translate is never a neutral act. [. . .] It is the quiet violence of    
   turning one world into another, often without consent.   
      
   [. . .] She was naming the structural asymmetry that underpins the act of    
   translation – the way dominant languages absorb and erase, rather than    
   reflect. She was warning us: not all speech survives the journey.   
      
   [. . .]   
      
   This was not translation. This was mistranslation-as-method."   
      
   Ciao Cátia! You might be interested to look at    
   HTTPS://Arxiv.org/abs/2308.00072 and    
   HTTPS://Tuairisc.Ie/fiafraigh-de-chatgpt-faoi-lion-na-marbh-in-g   
   za-is-braithfidh-an-freagra-ar-theanga-do-cheiste   
   "   
   where this Medium.com article is   
   HTTPS://Medium.com/@melokatja/bastard-language-artificial-intell   
   gence-epistemic-coloniality-and-situated-writing-0b7a90e06591   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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