From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/6/25 7:03 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > According to   
   > https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/   
   > the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.   
   >   
   > I'm encouraged by the fact that there were more than a hundred   
   > responses to that statement, and every one of them was negative.  Some   
   > because ChatGPT is infamous for "hallucinating," i.e. making stuff up   
   > out of thin air.  And some because ChatGPT was programmed using the   
   > works of professional writers, incuding would-be Worldcon program   
   > participants, without their permission.  Several of the commenters   
   > said that they are canceling their membership for this reason.   
   >   
   > I recommend that anyone thinking of attending read that statement and   
   > all of the responses.   
   >   
   > I will not be attending.   
   >   
   > I'm puzzled by the growing divide between the people who run large   
   > cons and fandom in general.   
      
   I asked ChatGPT for a 200-word bio of me and let's just say it totally   
   overstates my accomplishments, so if one is using it to vet who is   
   "worthy" of being on a panel, one is barking up the wrong tree.   
      
   (At least the current version doesn't claim I've won a Nebula, or had   
   stories in Asimov's, as earlier versions did.)   
      
   OTOH, when asked for a bio of Harlan Ellison it says nothing about his   
   episode with Connie Willis, which again says using it for vetting is   
   less than ideal.   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
   "No government--regardless of which party is in power--should   
   dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit   
   and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."   
   --Alan M. Garber, President of Harvard   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)