A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like ChatGPT
Get the Full StoryChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us to embrace the benefits of this new frontier. It s a classic example of what my colleague Punya Mishra calls the doom-hype cycle around new technologies. Likewise, media coverage of human-AI interaction whether paranoid or starry-eyed tends to emphasise its newness. In one sense, it is undeniably new. Interactions with ChatGPT can feel unprecedented, as when a tech journalist couldn t get a chatbot to stop declaring its love for him. In my view, however, the boundary between humans This story continues at The Next WebShare: