This article considers and then reconsiders what ChatGPT produces and how it produces it, using the work of a range of critical theorists and authors. In particular, it imagines what different philosophers, thinkers, and writers would say about this most recent technological leap, if they were somehow brought back from the past, into this, our new future. To ventriloquise for them, this article plays fast and loose with the work and styles of Douglas Adams, Virginia Woolf, and Alan Turing, among others, to try to demonstrate what ChatGPT can do, having been potentially “trained” on their work, as well as highlighting the nuances of allusion, subtext, paradox, and contradiction as possibly more human aspects of both writing and reading. Such “play” is followed by a more serious analysis of writing and the suggestion of a “Double Signature Signification” at work in the text produced by ChatGPT, meaning one system of signification for writing the text (schematic) and one for reading it (referent), which overlap perfectly. The article concludes by arguing that it is not the consciousness of ChatGPT that beguiles us, it is the possibility of that consciousness, and what gives rise to that sense of possibility is partly the spectral and haunting nature of dialoguing with it. A dialogue with ChatGPT has all the excitement of a séance: it is uncertain, unknown, yet with its traces of the familiar it is also like talking to the dead.

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回到未来：当你有机会时，你希望向德里达询问关于 ChatGPT 的一切！

本文利用一系列批判理论家和作者的工作，考虑并重新考虑 ChatGPT 产生了什么以及它如何产生它。特别是，它想象了如果不同的哲学家、思想家和作家以某种方式从过去带回到我们新的未来，他们会对这一最新的技术飞跃有何评价。为了向他们进行口技表演，本文快速而随意地运用了道格拉斯·亚当斯 (Douglas Adams)、弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 (Virginia Woolf) 和艾伦·图灵 (Alan Turing) 等人的作品和风格，试图展示 ChatGPT 可以做什么，因为他们的工作可能经过了“训练”，以及强调暗示、潜台词、悖论和矛盾的细微差别，这些可能是写作和阅读中更人性化的方面。这种“游戏”之后是对写作的更严肃的分析，以及在 ChatGPT 生成的文本中工作的“双重签名意义”的建议，这意味着一种用于书写文本的意义系统（示意图）和一种用于阅读文本的意义系统（指称），两者完全重叠。文章最后指出，迷惑我们的不是 ChatGPT 的意识，而是这种意识的可能性，而产生这种可能性感的部分原因是与之对话的幽灵般的、令人难以忘怀的本质。与 ChatGPT 的对话具有降神会般的兴奋感：它是不确定的、未知的，但又带着熟悉的痕迹，也就像与死者交谈。