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OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Post by cma »

Permit wrote: post #3

> Namely, he argued that OpenAI is concerned that the technology might be used to impersonate people or to fabricate fake news. This seems to be a particularly weak argument to make. How is their model going to impersonate someone in a way that a human can not?

Cheaper cost to put out a bigger volume of content.

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Post by Permit »

cma wrote: post #4
Permit wrote: post #3

> Namely, he argued that OpenAI is concerned that the technology might be used to impersonate people or to fabricate fake news. This seems to be a particularly weak argument to make. How is their model going to impersonate someone in a way that a human can not?

Cheaper cost to put out a bigger volume of content.

Is volume really what dictates whether or not you can impersonate someone? It's never seemed that way to me.

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Post by mey »

cma wrote: post #4
Permit wrote: post #3

> Namely, he argued that OpenAI is concerned that the technology might be used to impersonate people or to fabricate fake news. This seems to be a particularly weak argument to make. How is their model going to impersonate someone in a way that a human can not?

Cheaper cost to put out a bigger volume of content.

Cheaper than paying "influencers". Paid blogging was huge during the .com era. I wonder if this could be adapted, with suitably good speech synth, to produce podcasts en masse.

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Post by namuol »

toufiqbarhamov wrote: post #2

Ms. Anandkumar nailed it, this is blatant hype bordering on hucksterism. Elon Musk May have left, but his influence remains I guess.

First, it's clearly the goal of OpenAI to bring more public attention to advances in the field, specifically to help voters and policymakers consider potential ramifications well in advance of any "truly" groundbreaking work before it's too late. Of course they're "hyping" this technology.

Secondly, have you seen the results? I was dumbfounded and fascinated. I spent hours reading the samples.

Maybe I'm just out of the loop and this truly isn't anything significant, but then that only proves that OpenAI was successful: Now I am aware of the latest advances in NLP and hopefully so too are many more.

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Post by amrrs »

>Elon Musk distances himself from OpenAI, group that built fake news AI tool

This is the worst headlines in this matter. This is one of the leading media in India. A language model being touted as Fake news AI tool. This is like calling a car, A run over machine by Ford.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/elon-musk-distances-hims...

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Post by m0zg »

namuol wrote: post #7
toufiqbarhamov wrote: post #2

Ms. Anandkumar nailed it, this is blatant hype bordering on hucksterism. Elon Musk May have left, but his influence remains I guess.

First, it's clearly the goal of OpenAI to bring more public attention to advances in the field, specifically to help voters and policymakers consider potential ramifications well in advance of any "truly" groundbreaking work before it's too late. Of course they're "hyping" this technology. Secondly, have you seen the results? I was dumbfounded and fascinated. I spent hours reading the samples. Maybe I'm just out of t…

I have seen the results and I don't get why people think this is any more dangerous than journalists who selectively report to fit a predetermined agenda or make shit up on the spot. Which, today, is a lot of them.
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