With ChatGPT, the Bullshit Comes Full Circle
— I bought a house. At the end of the dance to negotiate pricing, settlement dates and whatnot, the estate agent sends you several emails and follow-up text messages, asking for a review.
Few online reviews for anything are honest, most are insincere or fake, and everybody knows they’re bullshit. The agent knows it, you know it, and the person fleetingly skimming over the review knows it. The review usually comprises of a few warm but ultimately meaningless words because, let’s face it, at this point, you’re just happy it’s all over and you want to be left alone.
Writing the review is a nuisance. But thanks to the wonderful world of generative AI, we can now offload this and other annoying tasks to a machine. And so I went and asked ChatGPT to write the review for me; I copied it and pasted it into the text box. Two minutes and I was done done. Everybody wins. The estate agent gets their review, and I didn’t waste any time.
In a way, a machine-generated review is more honest. The words were meaningless before, and now they’re also hollow. Before you had to sit down and put some effort into the review, on a good day you would even personalise your writing. Now you don’t have to put in a single thought. Just as the review itself, its production has become meaningless.
It’s all bullshit end to end.