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Re: Show HN: AskHN

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Post by jb1991 »

bityard wrote: post #14
retube wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am guessing they already were? But this is 100% pure, concentrated HN not contaminated with nonsense from the rest of the web :)

If it's really trained exclusively off of HN comments, I expect most of the bot's responses will evade the actual question but spend several paragraphs debating the factual specifics of every possible related tangential point, followed by an thinly-veiled insult questioning the user's true motivations.

That had me laughing! Case in point, from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855372

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Post by anaganisk »

olivierduval wrote: post #29
anaganisk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, it's no big a deal, its not like cambridge analytica will happen again. They're just using your data to train AI. Who knows may be based on the way you comment, you may get suggestions on which medication you need, or if it's time for the Redbull/starbucks coffee. Nah, all is good. Nothing bad will happen in allowing companies to scrape comments and build models. They're very ethical. In fact, people here are su…

The BIG DEAL is not THAT specific instance but the fact that the ML crowd think it's OK to take everything without even asking permission

I think I should've put an /s at the end. Its kind of strange that I see constant discussions here and people harrassing small apps/libraries about how their error collection is not OPT-IN. The whole audacity debacle. But data collection for training ML models is perfectly fine because we sure do know the companies who fund the research, how they will get an ROI.

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Post by la64710 »

Is there any LLM model that can be self hosted and fed a corpus of data to ingest for question answering? The part I find difficult is how to feed (not train) the open LLM models with entire dataset not available to public?

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Post by britzkopf »

have_faith wrote: post #11

It seems to write in the generic "style" of GPT, instead of in the style I would recognise as a HN poster. Is that because of something baked into how the training process works? It lacks a sort of casualness or air of superiority ;)

To truly capture the HN experience, the user should provide a parameter for the number of "well actually"'s they want to receive. So initial response should demonstrate clear expertise and make a great concise point in response to question, and then start the cascade of silly nitpicking.

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Post by [deleted] »

olivierduval wrote: post #29
anaganisk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, it's no big a deal, its not like cambridge analytica will happen again. They're just using your data to train AI. Who knows may be based on the way you comment, you may get suggestions on which medication you need, or if it's time for the Redbull/starbucks coffee. Nah, all is good. Nothing bad will happen in allowing companies to scrape comments and build models. They're very ethical. In fact, people here are su…

The BIG DEAL is not THAT specific instance but the fact that the ML crowd think it's OK to take everything without even asking permission

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Post by motohagiography »

Nice. I just sort of assumed early on my comments were training some future AI, and I hope that in some small way I have been able to moderate some of its stupider urges.

A version where you can turn knobs of flavored contributors would be pretty funny. I know my comment style is easily identifiable and reproducable, and it encodes a certain type of logical conjugation, albeit biased with some principles and trigger topics, and I think there is enough material on HN that there may be such a thing as a distinct, motohagiographic lens. :)

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Post by SilverBirch »

This might be a dumb question, but is this based on the collective wisdom of HN. Because I would say that the collective wisdom is just as much in the interaction of the comments and the ranking of those comments as it is in the comments themselves. If you just injest all the comments wholesale, aren't you rather getting the average wisdom of HN?

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Post by [deleted] »

olivierduval wrote: post #28
egypturnash wrote: post #9

Is there a way to opt out of one's comments being used for this?

I agree: when I signed in, I never agreed to let anybody use what I write to do anything they want ! I only agreed to let everybody read, understand, interact with what I wrote Actually, it makes me feel as bad as knowing that CAPTCHA were used to train image recognition models... I think it could be a good time to reconsider the question of the consent. I may agree that my words are used to train some IA... but 1) I…

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