Lacan? Humpf...

.."The end of certain intellectual oppressions with the use of artificial intelligence

Rodrigo Contrera

As a Humanities student, I was always deeply bothered by the aura of inaccessibility surrounding certain authors. Moreover, I was very disturbed by the attitude of these authors' teachers, always grumpy, with sharp teeth, and an absolute inability to look one in the eye. We live in Latin America, where any sign of good training or education is taken as a way to belittle others, and I experienced this for decades on end.

But artificial intelligence has definitively changed that. Thankfully.

Take Lacan, the famous psychoanalyst, for instance. Can anyone tolerate that guy's arrogance? I don’t know a SINGLE sentence taken from him that doesn't make me want to throw up, because of its pretension and lack of modesty. Everything seems like a sort of hide-and-seek game. Where is he? Where am I? Am I still living in the same world as before?

So, I went to a text available on the internet, took a paragraph about love, and input it into ChatGPT (the 3.5, the old one). What did the machine provide? A very subdued and even straightforward interpretation of what we might think about this captivating phenomenon, if we are inclined. Nothing extraordinary. I had written something quite similar before. I went back to the author's text. Nothing. Unintelligible. A ramble of words that simply show Lacan's clear inability to make sense. An absolute fool. A complete idiot.

Voilà. The false gods are over. Put them on artificial intelligence websites and be done with them. Got something to say? Say it competently. Stop beating around the bush.

(Rodrigo Contrera)"

Translated by ChatGPT