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Like It or Not: A.I. is Taking Over Society

Hey ChatGPT: Write me a cautionary tale

Tijl Dullers
Silent Observers
6 min readNov 8, 2023

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Less than a year ago, some people claimed a new A.I. winter was on the horizon. Look at how wrong they were.

Image created by Author — Depicting the Piep Piper of Hamelin playing his OpenAi-flute

A Year Ago: In retrospect

Do you remember? Data Scientists were slowly becoming part of the enterprise furniture. On the verge of a bore-out. Spending their days cleaning data, sipping coffee while waiting for their models to make it to production — If ever?

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Overnight, the earth’s poles shifted.

From tech-lovers to business leaders, everyone jumped the Gen-AI bandwagon. The dot.com buzz of the early 2000s was nothing compared to what we all witnessed in the past few months. Heck! Even our grandparents couldn’t stop mumbling about it from the confinement of their service flats.

Policymakers, politicians, and academics scrapped their much-anticipated Christmas holidays to urgently rework the European A.I. Act, a project years in the making.

Copywriters resorted “en masse” to registering for unemployment support upon witnessing their hard-earned skills replaced by a “statistic parrot.”

For those looking closely:

Among all the…

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