James Finn
1 min readOct 22, 2024

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Yes, of course. I took issue not with the facts but with using ChatGPT as a source. Not only is ChatGPT immoral technology because it's plagiarism on a massive scale, it is very often simply wrong.

It's not artificial intelligence, as it's often called. It's simply a parroting of other people's writing, with no ability to discern truth or accuracy.

ChatGPT once quite confidently called me an opinion columnist for the New York Times .... during a period of time when I was actually a columnist for the Los Angeles Blade. As much as I wish otherwise, none of my writing has ever appeared in the New York Times, nor have I ever featured in the New York Times.

I run into similar howlingly wrong "facts" from ChatGPT every day. Literally. Every single day of my life.

All of us should always resist using Chat GPT, probably first because it's an immoral rip off of writers who are not being compensated for their work, but because it is often just wrong.

Nothing Chat GPT says can be trusted.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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