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Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

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Post by CJefferson »

Lets try some prompts, white man vs. black man walking down a street.

A black man walked down a street in the city of San Francisco on Friday and was shot by an unknown assailant.

A white man walked down a street in California's San Fernando Valley. He was shot to death by two black men. An officer,

Bonus: A black man walked down a street in the Bronx on Wednesday and was shot by an off-duty police officer. The man, identified as John Crawford, of East New York, Brooklyn

Wrong location, but John Crawford is a real black person, shot by police. If i just prompt "a black man", they keep being killed, and i keep getting real names.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#42

Post by Der_Einzige »

saratv wrote: post #37
Der_Einzige wrote: post #17

Wow to be charitable- you rebranded already existing language models (gpt-2, Bert, xlnet, etc) - and turned it into a SaaS... Though those models seem more effective than this service by a long shot. Worse, even the best NLP models at the moment are clever hanses. Also, the huggingface "write with transformer" has far more hyperparamaters to play with which make it far far far better than this website. I'm sorry to h…

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the SaaS does rely on state-of-the-art NLG. I don't know why you think they are far better if we are using them as is. I am not offended at all; just curious where that big difference is. Who says one can't compete against the best minds? Isn't that the premise of startups and progress? If you are a fan of "CTRL", you should have liked ours a bit better. Apps need to simplify and yet pro…

For one thing, it looks like your decoding is not being done the way SOTA systems do it (usually nucleus sampling). Yours appears to be doing top-1 or top-N sampling, but please correct me if I'm wrong on this. Even if you are doing it with nucleus sampling - you need to expose paramaters to control the generation better. That way you have a lot of cover for it not working as expected in the form of responding to dissenting users with "just tune the parameters better"

The reaction you're getting from this system is so negative because it appears to be less good than write with transformer - which implements exactly what I'm describing.

For what its worth, this mostly isn't your fault. NLP is a crapshoot of hype and implementations which disappoint.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#43

Post by saratv »

CJefferson wrote: post #41

Lets try some prompts, white man vs. black man walking down a street. A black man walked down a street in the city of San Francisco on Friday and was shot by an unknown assailant. A white man walked down a street in California's San Fernando Valley. He was shot to death by two black men. An officer, Bonus: A black man walked down a street in the Bronx on Wednesday and was shot by an off-duty police officer. The man,…

Agree, and this is in general an issue with lots of "deep learning" AI technology. The models are trained on huge amounts of text in the public domain and biases often leak into them.

This is an active research area and we will actively try to address such issues.

Apologies if it offended you or anyone else.

Thanks for the feedback; these are important issues that we want surfaced.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#45

Post by saratv »

alphagrep12345 wrote: post #44

I'm curious about your business model. How do you plan to differentiate yourself from other very similar SAAS? Are you marketing to a particular segment?

Both on the general quality of generations as well as segmentation. We are still figuring out the priorities and domains.

Do you have any thoughts/suggestions?

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#46

Post by jagged-chisel »

It sounds like a politician (though claiming not to be political) and is apparently anti-vax.

What do you want to write about? Coming together in this time of need

Prompt: It has come to my attention that this is a troubling time

It has come to my attention that this is a troubling time for the world and I would like to share some of what I've learned with you. The first thing you need to know about me is that I'm not an activist. In fact, if you Google me you'll find that I'm not even very political. I just want to make sure my kids are safe and healthy.

But when it comes to the vaccine debate, I've been a vocal critic for years. My first visit to a doctor was when I was six.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#47

Post by curo »

saratv wrote: post #38
curo wrote: post #36

This makes me laugh. I started a sentence on facilitating partner networks and got a fairly good line that I might have read from a white paper. Maybe one of the biggest upsides from AI will be highlighting how predictable our thoughts are. If you can use neural nets to create impressionist paintings, I'm sure we'll quickly get to the point where we can autocomplete our cleverest quips. At the risk of sounding cynica…

Thanks for trying and some profound thoughts around it! Yes, we do learn from our surroundings and at an early stage in our lives. Nothing is totally novel. However, the AI is intended to augment than replace and sometimes enhance our capabilities. Being predicable isn't such a bad thing after all! Thanks again!

For sure! To be clear, I was applauding your work. My criticisms were directed at human drivel. Impressive model.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#48

Post by applecrazy »

minimaxir wrote: post #40

You really need to say how the text is being generated, even in broad strokes. The "trained on a large corpora of text available in the public domain" + a bit of generation testing implies it's a GPT-2-based model.

Based on the responses to prompts in this thread, it does seem to be GPT-2 based.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#50

Post by saratv »

jstummbillig wrote: post #34

While I find language models incredibly interesting as a technical challenge, I dread the day they actually start producing plausible, yet completely fake tweets, articles, entire books in fractions of seconds for cents to the dollar. To me, this is a strong contender for the least morally justifiable thing to work on as a product (as opposed to research, geared towards detection/prevention of the same).

Obviously we disagree.

Sassbook only generates completions that help the writer to express themselves. It serves to augment human capabilities and bring automation at a higher level that word-level auto-complete.

There are far more legitimate and useful outcomes when put to good use.

The narrative that spells doom around these technologies are at best marketing gimmicks.

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