Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
ChatGPT flatters to deceive
From the ubiquitous AI:
“Bill Bennett, a prominent New Zealand technology journalist, has covered the Mobile World Congress (MWC) for several years. His reporting on MWC events includes coverage from 2011 to 2020, where he provided insights and updates on various technological advancements and industry trends .”
In fact I’ve been to MWC twice: 2016 and 2019 I was set to go in 2020, but the event was cancelled thanks to the pandemic.
Why ask a robot?
It’s not vanity searching I was reduced to asking ChatGPT to find out the dates I reported on MWC because Google Search has become utterly useless for this kind of task. Apart from anything else, it has delisted dozens of pages from my site in recent weeks, but even pages that are indexed don’t always surface in a search.
As it turns out, ChatGPT is just as useless. I found the dates by searching for the local copies of website posts that I keep on my hard drive. This exercise shows why keeping careful archives is useful.
Oh… and about that “prominent”. I guess the AI is smart enough to attempt flattery, but not smart enough to know I’m not fooled.
Bill Bennett @robincapper I have a funny-odd story about that. At one time I was working for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian film director who shares my name wrote an op-ed for the paper. Soon after he was published I had an email from a young lady who wanted to become a movie star. I'm absolutely certain that you can guess where this is going... so other than to tell you I did not exploit the opportunity I shall leave it there.
Robin Capper @billbennett I asked Copilot (free edition)
"who is bill bennett technology reporter"
Bill Bennett is a freelance New Zealand technology and business journalist. He started his career as a journalist at the ABC and later transitioned into independent production as a writer/director, making documentaries and feature films. He has won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally, and his movies have been invited to some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals2