"My conclusion isn’t just that ChatGPT is another con game—it’s the biggest one of them all."

"ChatGPT, the AI bot, [is] the hottest thing in tech right now.
    "Judging by my Twitter feed, ChatGPT is hotter than Wordle and Taylor Swift combined.
    "It’s even hotter than its predecessor Sam Bankman-Fried, who was doing something similar 12 months ago. ChatGPT is just better than SamFTX in every way. It can’t even be extradited—because it’s just a bot.
    "People love it. People have confidence in it.
    "They want to use it for everything—legal work, medical advice, term papers, or even writing Substack columns [like mine] ....
    "Instead of offering up my opinions on this, I’ll just share some tweets from knowledgeable observers who are starting to suspect the con.
    "I’ll let you decide for yourself whether this measures up to a confidence game....
    "My conclusion isn’t just that ChatGPT is another con game—it’s the biggest one of them all. Microsoft even wants to hand over its entire search engine to this AI bot. Premium subscriptions are already available.
    "Some of you will tell me that I’m making a hasty judgment. ChatGPT will get better, they say. It will get smarter.
    "That’s exactly what I’m afraid of. The ethics code should have been inserted at the ground level—but it wasn’t. At this point, incremental improvements only make it better at its confidence game.
    "But in one way, it’s all so fitting. The con artist always gives people exactly what they want. And in a post-truth society, nobody does this better than AI. So I predict great things for ChatGPT—at least in economic terms. It will certainly live up to Sneaky Pete’s standards:
    "'I give people confidence. They give me money.'"

~ Ted Gioia, from his post 'Introducing the Slickest Con Artist of All Time: Or ten tweets about ChatGPT'