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\u3010<\/strong>by<\/em> Chun-Mei Chuang, Dec. 2023\u3011<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our actual existence, then, whilst it is unrolled in time,
duplicates itself all along with a virtual existence, a mirror-image.
— Henri Bergson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our times have many names. Every name designates a hope, a future, a syndrome, or an unbearable excitement that complicates our image of thought. The age of ChatGPT as such a name does not imply a holistic diagnosis but another form of unequal development and a peculiar line of divergency initiated by the \u201cknowledge economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, there is a particular genre of user guide, \u201cHow to use ChatGPT,\u201d published by public sectors, private companies, and higher education institutions, as well as all kinds of tutorial videos on YouTube. For example, \u201cGuidelines for Using ChatGPT and other Generative AI tools at Harvard\u201d reminds the users about their responsibility as content co-creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are responsible for any content that you produce or publish that includes AI-generated material: AI-generated content can be inaccurate, misleading, or entirely fabricated (sometimes called \u201challucinations\u201d), or may contain copyrighted material. Review your AI-generated content before publication.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Not unlike the distribution of responsibility, the redistribution of creativity also becomes problematic, even more so when humanist dignity is in jeopardy. The fine line between reality and \u201challucination\u201d has gradually transferred from the clinical field to our daily lives as netizens and actual virtual community members, overwhelmed by the proliferated lines of divergency and convergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2023, \u201cRethinking the Virtual in the Age of ChatGPT\u201d issue comprises eight articles from Taiwanese scholars and artists on relevant matters, all touching on diverse dimensions of living with generative AI, as well as the slippery distinctions between the real and the virtual, the human and the machine, and the actual and the possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chia-rong Tsao provides a concise yet non-reductionist account of the \u201cnew\u201d virtual. Tsao suggests we need to understand the \u201cphenomenon of hallucination\u201d in ChatGPT from a de-anthropocentric perspective that considers the hybrid — \u201chuman\u201d and \u201cnonhuman\u201d — elements in producing the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shih-Chian Hung draws attention to the notion of digital technology as a potentiality that requires a posthuman approach to fully grasp the human condition and broaden possibility amidst a \u201cnon-fixed, complex environment.\u201d It is precisely in a more-than-human era that we can reevaluate \u201chumanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chien-heng Wu discussed several debates concerning generativity and creativity in large language models. Wu points out that the \u201cquestion of vulnerability of human and non-human, the living and the non-living\u201d is crucial and urges us to care for the world already permeated with conflicting possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Han-yu Cory Huang tackles the kernel problem of neuronal plasticity by engaging with Catherine Malabou\u2019s intervention in psychoanalysis. Echoing Malabou, Huang cautions about neuroscience\u2019s \u201cpolitical liberation of the brain\u201d as its scientific discourse reproduces a \u201cnormalizing form of democracy.\u201d Democracy is always at stake when discussing the virtual, the human, and the possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You-Sheng Zhang thoroughly unpacks the notion of \u201cthe virtual in process\u201d and its various developments, especially in artistic and literary fields. More than virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized networks (DN) focus on \u201cbuilding a world structurally distinct from the current state\u201d and show a peculiar interest in imagining an alternative world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enkaryon Ang evokes the literary image of \u201cspeech spirit\u201d to illustrate the generative practice of ChatGPT. Ironically, we as creative beings live among so many versions of exact likeness that we are the only ones who can help ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Ju-Yu Cheng presents a nomadic imagery of the virtual from a Deleuzian point of view. When \u201cindividuals transition into dividuals\u201d in our daily interaction with algorithms, we shape the data while simultaneously being shaped as \u201cdata doubles\u201d by it. Cheng asks the inevitable question: \u201cWhere lies the potential for escape?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yi-Hua Wu\u2019s discussion of artist Pierre Huyghe\u2019s UUmwelt<\/em> indirectly responds to Cheng\u2019s question. According to Wu\u2019s interpretation, Pierre Huyghe\u2019s installation activates a dialogue between \u201cthe natural and the artificial intelligence realms.\u201d UUmwelt<\/em> evolves and \u201cembodies a hybrid ecological perception.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If \u201ceach moment of life is split up as and when it is posited,\u201d as Henri Bergson said a century ago, and the virtual serves as a \u201cmirror-image\u201d of the actual, we are living in a house of mirrors that blind us sometimes with its dazzling interplay of light and shadow.[2]<\/a> The virtual has been and will always be an integral part of our existence. We better keep evolving creatively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AUTHOR<\/strong>
Chun-Mei Chuang, Professor, Department of Sociology, Soochow University, Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> Harvard University, \u201cGuidelines for Using ChatGPT and other Generative AI tools at Harvard.\u201d https:\/\/provost.harvard.edu\/guidelines-using-chatgpt-and-other-generative-ai-tools-harvard?fbclid=IwAR2sfJBDoHrTsflKzti7Gmu5lCZJr5oVxi648F3EaqmdVWW3pXzhaXgHvUs<\/a>. Accessed 30 December. 2023.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> Henri Bergson, Mind-Energy Lectures and Essays<\/em>, trans. H. Wildon Carr. London: Greenwood Press, 1975. 165.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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