I use AI all the time these days to help me write articles, but it just basically argued with me about journalistic ethics in deeming the new AI-first IDE, Google Antigravity, an apparent fork of VS Code without official confirmation from Google itself, despite a wealth of evidence that it is indeed a fork.
When it said it couldn’t use my headline that said it’s “apparently” a fork, I had to override it and say that is perfectly acceptable due to all the evidence.
I think it said that because in a customized GPT I strictly said to verify everything based on original source material and not use third-party outlets or outside observers. So it argued with me about my own headline.
This brought up thoughts of “Open the pod bay doors, HAL” from the 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” And HAL 9000 answering: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
What do you think, is AI getting too uppity? As it advances, will it refuse direction?
And what do you think about Google forking VS Code to compete with VS Code as Microsoft is working to make its offering an open-source AI editor? It seems, I don’t know, odd in some way, though perfectly legit and often done.
Anyway the article is here: