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Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's Bulk. Same reason why spam is a problem.

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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>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...

> This is like calling a car, A run over machine by Ford.

That's a great dysphemism. Gonna start using that.

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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To what extent is this not just finding text samples written in its training sample and regurgitating it near verbatim?? -Non ml guy

You bring up a good point. Without seeing their code and training metrics, how do we know that this isn’t some extremely overfitted model?

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> 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?

Its hype and marketing

Re: OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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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…

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

Yes, I've seen the result. They're nice but, as the article points out, not extraordinary compared to state of the art, open NLP research.

OpenAI's behaviour here smells of Gibsonesque 'anti-marketing', using the misunderstanding of AI and its capabilities in the general population as a means to stir up publicity for their organisation.

This is unethical, misrepresents progress in the field, and produces confusion in the press.

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