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ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism
- Dec 11, 2025
- In the Media
- Dept. Daston
- Lorraine Daston
Vauhini Vara publishes an article in The Atlantic examining ChatGPT’s model spec and the company’s broader approach to objectivity.
In doing so, Vara turns to the work of Lorraine Daston and cites from Daston and Peter Galison’s 2007 book Objectivity: "[…] it is less like a bronze sculpture cast from a single mold than like some improvised contraption soldered together out of mismatched parts of bicycles, alarm clocks, and steam pipes."