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Vauhini Vara’s Examines Selfhood with Assistance from ChatGPT

2025/4/15
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Vauhini Vara: 我探索了技术产品如何反映我们自身以及技术产品本身的运作方式。通过与ChatGPT的对话,我试图打破人们对AI的表面认知,揭示其背后的运作机制以及大型科技公司的目标。我发现,通过与AI的互动,我能够更好地了解自己的需求和愿望,因为我们在语言中表达这些东西。回顾我的谷歌搜索历史,我发现了自己多年来的生活状态和真正关心的事情。我对AI技术既有喜爱也有担忧,通过使用AI技术来探讨技术对人类表达能力的影响。我不认为ChatGPT等AI产品与我存在合作关系,因为它们最终服务于大型科技公司的目标。随着AI产品从研究实验转变为商业产品,其语言风格也发生了变化,从富有创造性转变为更注重指令的执行和商业目的。在姐姐去世后,我将悲伤倾诉给了雅虎搜索引擎,而不是向身边的人倾诉。人们使用搜索引擎和AI并非仅仅为了方便,也为了寻求亲密感和情感上的慰藉。我使用AI技术是为了批判这些技术产品,并探讨其承诺与实际交付之间的差距。虽然AI在写作过程中给了我一些帮助,但最终只有我才能真正写出我和姐姐的故事。AI生成的语言并非客观真理,它反映了其背后公司的价值观和愿望。OpenAI联系我,是因为他们对我的文章感兴趣,这反映了科技公司对AI技术应用的关注和对潜在影响的担忧。ChatGPT在对我的章节进行总结时,使用了“合作”一词,这突显了科技公司在产品中植入其话语权的方式。ChatGPT对我的作品的总结与我本人的意图存在差异,这凸显了AI技术潜在的误读和操控风险。AI生成的文本可能存在不准确和偏差的问题,这与AI的训练数据和设计有关。新闻媒体在报道AI技术方面做得不错,但对AI技术与用户之间复杂关系的报道还有待加强。 Arati Shahani: 作为主持人,我引导了与Vauhini Vara的对话,并提出了关于AI技术应用、伦理和社会影响等问题,促进了对AI技术复杂性的深入探讨。 Tim: 我的学生们在比较了AI写作和自主写作后,更倾向于自主写作,因为他们认为自主写作更具创造性。 Diane: AI可以帮助人们在悲伤时期完成一些任务,例如撰写讣告,但同时也可能导致人们失去自主处理情感的能力。 Jay: 将与AI的互动称为“合作”是不合适的,因为这掩盖了科技公司利用用户数据来获取利益的事实。

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Vauhini Vara discusses her experience co-authoring with ChatGPT, highlighting the complexities of human-AI collaboration and the ethical considerations of using AI in creative writing. She reveals her love-hate relationship with AI, and how it helped her explore her grief and self-expression.
  • Vara co-authored her book with ChatGPT to explore the intersection of technology and selfhood.
  • She examines how technological capitalism is redefining humanity.
  • The AI's language use reveals the goals of the technology companies that own it.

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When tech writer Vauhini Vara was struggling to process her sister’s death in 2021, she asked an early version of ChatGPT to write about it through an increasingly complex series of prompts. The essays in her collection, “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” build on her conversations with AI, enlisting its help to grapple with what it means to be human when our thoughts, our words — and with them, our very humanity — are filtered through machines. We talk to Vara about how technological capitalism is redefining what it means to be human.

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Vauhini Vara, tech journalist and novelist; her new collection of essays is “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”

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