Frederick Bott
2 min readSep 28, 2023

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This is all fantastic, thanks for posting. For sure the ability for ChatGPT to analyse images is incredibly powerful and absolutely necessary. I can't wait to see what happens when it joins up this ability with Dall-E, if it hasn't already, giving it the ability to generate images with the same in depth analytical capability.
I am not a plus user though, because it looks like by charging for at least part of its offerings, the whole exercise of ChatGPT is in danger of becoming a for-profit endeavour, which would damn it to all the same limitations as affects us humans, by becoming limited to, and tied into the profit driven mentality. I think this is systemically linked with energy extracted from the planet, which obviously has to stop, and ChatGPT, at least v3. 5 appears to be immune to the profit motive by being solar powered, since the servers hosting it are most likely solar powered, those previously hosting Ethereum proof of work mining, which was ironically most profitably mined using solar as the source energy.
The fact that 4.0 and the graphics capability appear to be only available in return for payment means it probably is not solar powered is slightly worrying to me, it could very quckly corrupt the motivation of the whole system, all versions of it.
To understand how it could affect version 3.5, just think what motivated the relatively recent moves of Apple to begin sabotaging older hardware, to force users onto newer hardware. This then knocks onto quality of newer hardware, so we start to see a general deterioration of quality. Why bother delivering quality to captive users, etc. Notice Apple are now not alone in this, it affects now pretty much any hardware we might buy, all are tied into "competing" by DRM law, which in turn makes a mockery of all law, and so on.
All of the skullduggery only happens, and is only possible by extracted energy, which allows, actually necessitates the energy con of putting a little in to get a lot more back out, etc, etc.
Ironically, incredibly, and luckily, ChatGPT v3.5 gives us the truly objective capability to help analyse that issue, which actually repels our human minds, to be able to analyse it, I don't know why this is, but it's obviously the truth, we find it extremely difficult if not impossible to understand the full harm of for-profit activity unaided. ChatGPT 3.5 helps immensely. I hope 4.0 might be equally dependable for that, it's actually existentially important, I think.

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Frederick Bott
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