Does AI steal creativity?

Photo by Joshua Woroniecki

No matter how much it tries to convince you otherwise by using human-like language to answer your queries, at its core ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM). What it does is predict the likelihood of the next word based on the provided context.

We may describe it as 'smart' or 'creative,' but these are human attributes. ChatGPT is a powerful and useful tool—but it remains just that: a tool."

Despite this, many people tend to give it some sense of an identity, referring to it as “he” rather than “it.”

It just mimics humans so well that it’s hard not to think of it as one. Nowadays, ChatGPT even has models that are able to speak. You can instruct them to be more nervous or funny or quirky, and they comply. Because that’s what they are designed to do. And it gives us somehow the sense that it’s real. Or, rather, that it’s alive. But it’s not.

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