ChatGPT: Driving the world berserk?

Or has the world seen things like this before?

Reading, watching, and listening to the heated discourse on all this, I get worried, but not for the reasons that you may imagine, dear reader.

I get worried because our country, India, has seen social upheaval whenever major technological waves occur. We are a country where a smart Bombay-based, London-educated lawyer saw a political opportunity when indigo farms in the remote Champaran region of Bihar collapsed. He attributed their collapse to their British owners’ exploitation of their Indian workers whereas the true reason was that German scientists synthetically produced indigo, using the then newly founded science of chemistry, at a fraction