PU #256 - BUT WHAT IS IT FOR? - On The Purpose Of Doing Things

“Why do we do anything that we do? What is its purpose? What are we actually trying to achieve? The less we ask ourselves these questions about the things that we do, the more we hollow out the world into an empty pantomime of vacuous appearances, void of substance, meaning, and sense.“

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189. THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE - Still Haunting AI

"if these AI machines were conscious then we would effectively be using them as our slaves; they do not have a choice in the matter and are also not getting paid. This raises important questions on the morality of the use of AI" A student writes on AI and slavery...

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143. ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED - Is using ChatGPT To Do Your Work Cheating?

“The following essay for Philosophy Unleashed was produced by AI. ChatGPT to be precise. I asked it to attempt to write a Philosophy Unleashed post on the topic of the ethics of using ChatGPT to cheat in school work, and do it in the style of me as author. I will present the essay to you first, then show you how it came to be. As you read, ask yourself the question: if I hadn’t told you it was artificially generated, would you know that a human being didn’t write this? And if you know my work specifically, would you know that I hadn’t written it?“

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