S8E20 - I Scammed the UN using ChatGPT (What a Season Finale!) - a podcast by Antoine Walter

Here's the full breakdown of the Water Action Agenda pledges (including the Excel table that you can download) ➡️ https://dww.show/the-truth-about-the-water-action-agenda-768-commitments-decrypted/

I fear that the UN Water Action Agenda suffers from what Barney Stinson (yes, the one from How I Met Your Mother) would call... the cheerleader effect.

Many "commitments", but at the end of the day, a lot of pretty vague ones.

So I looked into it and share you some emblematic examples in this video! But I did not stop there.

I also wanted to test out what it takes to be featured on the Water Action Agenda and decided to introduce a commitment myself. To do so, I got a bit of help: the almighty ChatGPT wrote it integrally for me in just two queries.

And guess what? It got adopted!

Now to be clear, it's not so much of a scam at the end of the day: I will really follow my pledge and publish a Water Podcast a week for the next year. And in all cases, I'll submit updates on my pledge, which isn't the norm when you find out that ⬇️

I made an additional short on how a $300 Bn pledge became a $101 Bn commitment ➡️ https://youtube.com/shorts/hc0jeCdaYns?feature=share

Timestamps:

00:00 Csaba Kőrösi presses a mysterious button

01:00 Why was the UN Water Conference happening at all?

01:58 Can the Water Action Agenda save the UN Water Conference's outcomes?

03:02 The problem with the Water Action Agenda: the Cheerleader Effect

04:10 2 Examples of Empty Statements (amongst 146 other ones)

06:37 "Lukewarm Water Commitments" (a problematic UN Water Action Agenda category)

08:22 3 Awesome Commitments (there are good ones too!)

10:08 What's the scam?

11:03 Using ChatGPT to trick the United Nations

12:42 Did it Work? 

14:12 Conclusion

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