It is a bonus submit, following from yesterday’s, during which I interviewed the synthetic intelligence often called ChatGPT about meditation.
This time I gave the AI the immediate, “Write a Buddhist sutta, within the type of the Pali canon, during which the Buddha tells Ananda to cease taking part in Sweet Crush on his iPhone.”
Right here’s what ChatGPT got here up with.
As soon as, the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Park. And at the moment, the Venerable Ananda was hooked on taking part in Sweet Crush on his iPhone.
The Blessed One approached Ananda and mentioned, “Ananda, what are you doing?”
Ananda replied, “I’m taking part in Sweet Crush, Lord.”
The Buddha spoke: “Ananda, this isn’t the trail to liberation. The taking part in of such video games solely results in craving and attachment. To attain true peace and knowledge, one should let go of such distractions and have interaction in virtuous and significant actions.”
Ananda listened to the Buddha’s phrases and put down his iPhone, vowing to let go of his attachment to Sweet Crush. He turned his consideration to the Buddha’s teachings and shortly realized the trail to enlightenment.
And so it’s mentioned:
“Simply as a chicken is free of its cage
when the door is opened, so too one is freed
from the bonds of ignorance and craving
by practising the trail taught by the Buddha.”
Appropriately, the picture above was generated by one other AI (Craiyon: previously DALL-E Mini), utilizing the immediate, “guide illustration of the Buddha holding an iPhone.”
Coming again all the way down to earth, ChatGPT’s predecessor was liable to utilizing vile racist and misogynistic language, as a result of its database of data was drawn from the net, and the net is filled with that form of stuff. For the most recent model of the AI, a program needed to be developed that might acknowledge and display out the poisonous materials. In an effort to do this, Kenyan staff have been paid as little as $1.32 an hour (by way of a subcontractor of OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT) to learn and categorize the textual content. Staff have been traumatized by studying, for instance, graphic descriptions of bestiality and pedophile intercourse.
The contract between OpenAI and the subcontractor ended after an article was printed exhibiting that Fb had employed the subcontractor to display content material. On this case, Kenyans have been required to view pictures and movies of executions, rape and little one abuse for as little as $1.50 per hour. That is traumatizing work.
AI and social media are enjoyable, however there’s a darkish and exploitative facet to it as nicely.