Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.

  • NuraShiny [any]
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    7 months ago

    LOL you are a muppet. The only people who tough this shit is good are either clueless marks, or have money in the game and a product to sell. Which are you? Don't answer that I can tell.

    This tech is less then a year old, burning billions of dollars and desperately trying to find people that will pay for it. That is it. Once it becomes clear that it can't make money, it will die. Same shit as NFTs and buttcoin. Running an ad for sex asses won't finance your search engine that talks back in the long term and it can't do the things you claim it can, which has been proven by simple tests of the validity of the shit it spews. AKA: As soon as we go past the most basic shit it is just confidently wrong most of the time.

    The only thing it's been semi-successful in has been stealing artists work and ruining their lives by devaluing what they do. So fuck AI, kill it with fire.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      AKA: As soon as we go past the most basic shit it is just confidently wrong most of the time.

      So it really is just like us, heyo

    • Aabbcc@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      The only thing you agreed with is the only thing they got wrong

      This tech is less then a year old,

      Not really.

      The only people who tough this shit is good are either clueless marks, or have money in the game and a product to sell

      Third option, people who are able to use it to learn and improve their craft and are able to be more productive and work less hours because of it.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        please, for all if our sakes, don't use chatgpt to learn. it's subtly wrong in ways that require subject-matter experience to pick apart and it will contradict itself in ways that sound authoritative, as if they're rooted in deeper understanding, but they're extremely not. using LLMs to learn is one of the worst ways to use it. if you want to use it to automate repetitive tasks and you already know enough to supervise it, go for it.

        honestly, if I hated myself, I'd go into consulting in about 5ish years when the burden of maintaining poorly written AI code overwhelms a bunch of shitty companies whose greed overcame their senses - such consultants are the only people who will come out ahead in the current AI boom.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          it's subtly wrong in ways that require subject-matter experience to pick apart and it will contradict itself in ways that sound authoritative, as if they're rooted in deeper understanding, but they're extremely not

          Sounds a bit like the LLM hype riders in this thread, too.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              7 months ago

              Garbage in, garbage out, and the very logical rational computer touchers took a big dose of hype marketing before coming here.

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                7 months ago

                Garbage in, garbage out

                what's extremely funny to me is that this exact phrase was used when I was in college to explain why you shouldn't do exactly what the OpenAI team later did, in courses on AI and natural language processing. we were straight up warned not to do it, with a discussion on ethics centered on "what if it works and you don't wind up with model that spews unintelligible gibberish?" (the latter was mostly how it went back then - neural nets were extremely hard to train back then). there were a couple of kids who were like "...but it worked... " and the professor pointedly made them address the consequences.

                this wasn't even some liberal arts school - it was an engineering school that lacked more than a couple of profs qualified to teach philosophy and ethics. it just used to be the normal way the subject was taught, back when it was still normal to discourage the use of neural nets for practical and ethical reasons (like consider almost succeeding and driving a fledgling, sentient being insane because you fed it a torrent of garbage).

                I went back when the ML boom and sat in on a class - the same prof had cut all of that out of the curriculum. he said it was cause the students complained about it and the new department had told him to focus on teaching them how to write/use the tech and they'd add an ethics class later.

                agony-acid

                instead, we just have an entire generation who have been taught to fail the Turing test against a chatbot that can't remember what it said a paragraph ago. I feel old.

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  7 months ago

                  (like consider almost succeeding and driving a fledgling, sentient being insane because you fed it a torrent of garbage)

                  Microsoft Tay, after one day exposed to internet nazis sus-torment

                  I went back when the ML boom and sat in on a class - the same prof had cut all of that out of the curriculum. he said it was cause the students complained about it and the new department had told him to focus on teaching them how to write/use the tech and they'd add an ethics class later.

                  agony-deep

                  instead, we just have an entire generation who have been taught to fail the Turing test against a chatbot that can't remember what it said a paragraph ago

                  And like the LLMs themselves, they'll confidently be wrong and assume knowledge and mastery that they simply don't have, as seen in this thread. berdly-smug

                  • silent_water [she/her]
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                    7 months ago

                    Microsoft Tay, after one day exposed to internet nazis

                    even less coherent. a neural net trained on a bad corpus won't even produce words. it's like mashing your face on the keyboard in a way that produces things that sound like words, inserted into and around actual, incomprehensible text. honestly, reading what gpt3 produced, I think that what was happening to a degree and they were doing postprocessing to extract usable text.

                    And like the LLMs themselves, they'll confidently be wrong and assume knowledge and mastery that they simply don't have, as seen in this thread.

                    did they get banned? I expected more angry, nonsense replies. "did chatgpt write this?" is such a fun and depressing game.

                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                      7 months ago

                      There were at least 3 computer touchers riding the LLM hype wave in this thread. I don't know if any of them were banned and one of them is a local.

                        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                          7 months ago

                          Two, now that I checked, actually. Starting here. Packed with crude reductionism flavor!

                          https://hexbear.net/comment/4289827

        • Aabbcc@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          such consultants are the only people who will come out ahead in the current AI boom.

          It's absurd you don't think there are professionals harnessing ai to write code faster, that is reviewed and verified.

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            7 months ago

            it's absurd that you think these lines won't be crossed in the name of profit

            • Aabbcc@lemm.ee
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              7 months ago

              Never said they wouldn't. But you're saying the ONLY people benefitting from the ai boom are the people cleaning up the mess and that's just not true at all.

              Some people will make a mess

              Some people will make good code at a faster pace than before

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                7 months ago

                those people don't benefit. they're paid a wage - they don't receive the gross value of their labor. the capitalists pocket that surplus value. the people who "benefit" by being able to deliver code faster would benefit more from more reasonable work schedules and receiving the whole of the value they produce.

                • Aabbcc@lemm.ee
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                  7 months ago

                  I don't know if you know this but I can play neopets and chill once my ticket is written and passes tests. So now I work less hours a week

                  Also my personal project is developing faster.

                  • silent_water [she/her]
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                    7 months ago

                    I mean if you can get away with that, great. most people can't and it's just a tool to get more work out of them.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Third option, people who are able to use it to learn and improve their craft and are able to be more productive and work less hours because of it.

        Third option: selectively ignore everyone who has already been fucked over with how it's been applied and used against them, not just lost jobs but everything from health insurance rejections to tightening and worsening surveillance and marketing manipulation, all because you're a computer toucher and live in a bubble of "I got mine" selfishness and probably expect a superior AI waifu to pop up any moment now, just like in the Blade Runner movie that you've already made excuses for as a point of "very scientific very logical" reference. jagoff

      • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        I think it works well a a kind of replacement for google searches. This is more of a dig on google as SEO feels like it ruined search. Ads fill most pages of search and it's tiring to come up with the right sequence of words to get the result I would like.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Chances are LLM technology will have an arms race against itself, advertisers versus individual users, and the owners of such technology make bank both ways so it's good for them. capitalist-laugh