Roll up! Roll up! OpenAI now offering a miracle cure… for ChatGPT

OpenAI are making an astoundingly successful business out of releasing products that sort of work, most of the time, but that they themselves say you shouldn’t use and will probably make mistakes…

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579942/chatgpt-ai-text-detection-openai-classifier

Most EULAs and software licences say the same sort of thing, far less overtly, but there’s something about OpenAI’s approach that puts me in mind of a snake-oil salesman of the Old West, offering “miracle cures” and moving on quickly when people start asking questions.

Also, like an Old West miracle cure, we still don’t know much about what ingredients OpenAI used to make their tonic…