Spotted on the Bluesky-o-tron, by user Pookleblinky:
I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine.
A guy had started Wheeler’s Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.
Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.
√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.
So the guy sees this, gets confused, and plugs it into chatgpt
“What is the 1/2 doing there?”
A human would refresh basic algebra: here is how exponents work, here is how you add and multiply them, etc.
A human would recognize the level of the problem the guy had got stuck on.
Because chatgpt had stolen Spacetime Physics, and literally every physics stack exchange and reddit post ever made talking about it, chatgpt had a huge pool of dogshit to rearrange into an answer-shaped object for him.
As far as I can tell, when he asked chatgpt what the hell a power of 1/2 is, it told him absolute nonsense about the inverse square law.
he asked several more questions and got out of it that the inverse square law is a fake idea.
So now he’s lost on the algebra level, the level of understanding how exponents work, and on the physics level: he has the wrong idea of what exponents are doing in equations
Further down the page there is 1 more equation, page 3 has a few more.
Each write square roots as powers of 1/2, and at this point the book is simply too confusing.
Within 3 pages the guy is absolutely, hopelessly confused and now entirely reliant on chatgpt to translate it for him.
No more math appears, from then on it’s all words back and forth.
Now he’s posting excerpts, chatgpt is telling him about quantum, it’s talking observers, it’s telling him about dark matter.
He very extremely literally stopped reading the book, Wheeler’s Spacetime Physics, 2.5 pages in
Whatever the fuck book he now thinks he is reading, is not that.
So now he’s reading a completely made up book, narrated to him by the plagiarism bot, that he thinks is Wheeler’s Spacetime Physics.
He thinks he is reading a book that exists, that chatgpt is helping him read the book.
He posts a problem, claiming it is a problem with Wheeler’s actually existing book, Spacetime Physics.
And people are like: what the fuck book are you reading? What the hell are you even talking about? The book is about relativity, it doesn’t talk at all about quantum foam
The guy could realize: I have fooled myself into reading a nonexistent book of absolute narrated to me by a mindless machine, I have wasted my time being so extremely gullible.
Or, he could do what he did do: argue with people about the words of a book that literally does not exist.
So he’s posting excerpts from chatgpt lying about a book that doesn’t exist, it’s all word salad, it’s all absolutely fucking meaningless, and he’s going “Wheeler says right here that I’m right”
People: that’s not Wheeler, that’s not Spacetime Physics, are you fucking with us?
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