Ngl, I’m writing a sitcom right now and I’ve taken inspiration from ChatGPT responses. In fact, when I prompted it with the basic concept of my show idea, it spit out a cast of characters similar to the ones I had already envisioned; that’s likely because I was going off of basic character archetypes that everyone uses. But what that told me is I needed to make my show stand out more, that it was already predictable.

From my experience, ChatGPT is leagues away from replacing actual writers, but it can spit out a cookie-cutter plot or cast of characters, that will then need to be revised and improved upon by an actual writer. At this point, it makes for a somewhat useful tool that writers can use, but will it someday replace us? Yes, probably.

It doesn’t take actively culling the poor in the world to kill off the poor. It can easily be done by just cutting off their access to resources, which the rich have very little incentive not to do when labor is not needed.

UBI doesn’t make up for human faults; there will certainly be people with no motivation, who just sit around and jerk off. The thing is, there are already those people, and there always have been. UBI just makes it so they’re not starving on the streets. Kind of a depressing view of human nature, to think we can’t do anything of value unless we’re forced to in order to feed ourselves.