Hicks, Humphries and Slater express an opinion: “ChatGPT is Bullshit,” Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries, and Joe Slater, Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 26, no. 38, 2024.
Tag: bullshit
Pennycook: Timing Matters When Correcting Fake News
Peace Prize winner Gordon Pennycook and colleagues did an experiment about how to disrupt the workings of genuinely faked news. They published a study about what they learned: “Timing Matters When Correcting Fake News,” Nadia M. Brashier, Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, […]
Yoga & the Bullshit Prevention Protocol
If you savor the savoring of bullshit, here are two useful essays. Each was published in The Last Word on Nothing: “Yoga & the Bullshit Prevention Protocol” by Ann Finkbeiner. and “The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention” by Michelle Nijhuis. The ‘Pocket Guide’ includes this graphic: An older guide, harmonious with the Nujhuis “Pocket Guide”, […]
“Bullshit Makes the Art Grow Profounder” (new research study)
Jonathan Fugelsang, whose team was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2016 for studying the power of pseudo-profound bullshit, has a new study, with other colleagues, about the power of bullshit: “Bullshit Makes the Art Grow Profounder,” Martin Harry Turpin, Alexander C. Walker, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Nina N. Gabert, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, and Jennifer A. Stolz, […]