Douglas Hofstadter Slams GPT-4's 'Why I Wrote GEB?' as 'Fake' and Expresses Concerns about LLMs

Douglas Hofstadter, a pioneer in AI, strongly criticizes a GPT-4-generated text, 'Why I Wrote GEB?', purportedly summarizing his seminal work, Gödel, Escher, Bach. He argues the text is filled with generic platitudes, drastically misrepresenting his writing style and the book's genesis. Hofstadter highlights the LLM's lack of originality and its fabrication of a false narrative. He details the actual creative process behind GEB, from his initial fascination with Gödel's incompleteness theorem to the integration of Escher and Bach, revealing the genuine inspirations and struggles. He expresses serious concerns about the proliferation of LLMs and their potential to flood the world with falsehoods, urging a critical assessment of their inherent dangers.