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Post by thatguy0900 »

jl6 wrote: post #124
causi wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of hate speech could you possibly generate with ChatGPT that doesn't already exist in the wild, free to copy and spread?

Automated radicalization of Twitter, or Reddit, or HN, or Wikipedia. The sophisticated bad actor won’t generate straight-up hate speech that will just get filtered/blocked. They will be master of ten thousand bot accounts that work slowly to build up a plausibly innocuous posting history (including holding realistic conversations either between themselves or with real users), then start subtly manipulating conversati…

I think the defence against this is invite only forums or just closed forums where everyone knows each other. I cant see large open forums surviving, between automated human like advertising and political account farms people with real opinions will be in the extreme minority.

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Post by wswope »

zigzag312 wrote: post #51
sebzim4500 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably quite a lot, but it is extremely unlikely that the person who mistakenly has access to the confidential data has any idea what to do with it. Still pretty embarassing though, I would feel much better about using GPT-n over the API if it was available as an Azure API rather than through OpenAI. MSFT, for all their faults, do not do this kind of thing.

You mean things like BlueBleed? https://thestack.technology/microsoft-data-breach-azure-blue...

Or ChaosDB: https://chaosdb.wiz.io/

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Post by elevenoh »

nostromo wrote: post #72
tibbon wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hear two things requested a lot - an open source ChatGPT and more controls on the training/data/usage/etc. How can these two things be held in balance? If it is open source entirely, can't I use the training data and tool in any way I want? What guardrails prevent me from using it to generate hate speech? Given the compute power needed to train/run it; where are people going to do that in any accessible way that do…

> What guardrails prevent me from using it to generate hate speech? Honestly, who gives a shit? Humans can do this already.

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Re: ChatGPT is down

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Post by [deleted] »

tibbon wrote: post #57
not-chatgpt wrote: post #5

This is due to rumored hacks/leaks: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp... We really need an open source alternative instead of putting all our faith in one for-profit company.

I hear two things requested a lot - an open source ChatGPT and more controls on the training/data/usage/etc. How can these two things be held in balance? If it is open source entirely, can't I use the training data and tool in any way I want? What guardrails prevent me from using it to generate hate speech? Given the compute power needed to train/run it; where are people going to do that in any accessible way that do…

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Re: ChatGPT is down

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Post by guessbest »

ccooffee wrote: post #43
tunesmith wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used it quite a bit over the weekend to reacquaint myself with my small music studio, which I had ignored over the past few years. It told me all sorts of accurate information about my microphones, hardware, etc, including helping me with some connection problems having to do with buggy signal flow.

I don't understand how ChatGPT (or similar interactive agents) function, so I'm very confused by your experience. Was ChatGPT just a replacement for internet searches (e.g. instead of searching for a spec sheet for your model microphone, you asked the bot "what is the for microphone?")? Or was ChatGPT doing the debugging with you just providing data from the real world?

I assume the OP is leaving out the part about something called prompt engineering which has a bit of a learning curve. I'm going to have to dive in to it myself, as it seems like a bit of self-education is required before it can be simply communicated.

Some information here : https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide/blob/mai...

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Post by jraph »

paxys wrote: post #37
brutusurp wrote: post #8

Hmm... Perhaps "high income workers" take serious this paper: "OpenAI publishes paper on the economic impact of GPT-4: Higher income workers most exposed" https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11whznb/openai_... https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

Like every other technological advancement in history, people who adopt it will benefit, while those who stick their head in the sand and cry "this is bad", "this will put people out of a job" etc. will get left behind.

> those who stick their head in the sand and cry "this is bad"

Hey, this is me! :-)

I like being able to develop stuff without depending on someone else's computer, on non-free software and on an internet connection.

quietly closes the door muttering "get off my lawn"

Re: ChatGPT is down

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Post by layer8 »

neals wrote: post #39

Incredible how fast that went. My assistant/driver has become my go-to email, blog and newsletter writer with the use of chat GPT. This downtime makes me realize how fast our dependency on that specific system has gone and how scary that actually is.

This is why we shouldn’t make ourselves dependent on centralized online services.

Re: ChatGPT is down

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Post by i_have_an_idea »

mariojv wrote: post #54

I wonder if when multiple LLMs are more widely available if there's money to be made in providing a unified API that falls back to different service providers depending on their status. Multicloud meets AI.

Unlikely, as small differences in the models can widely affect the expected responses. If anything, people would pay for a way to freeze the model at a specific version.

Re: ChatGPT is down

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Post by hanselot »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #45
voytec wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Hacks" aside, this looks more like caching issues. Assuming this is real, I wonder how many people got access to other companies' communication and code via access to random "chats".

Probably quite a lot, but it is extremely unlikely that the person who mistakenly has access to the confidential data has any idea what to do with it. Still pretty embarassing though, I would feel much better about using GPT-n over the API if it was available as an Azure API rather than through OpenAI. MSFT, for all their faults, do not do this kind of thing.

Microsoft is the best at ensuring your accounts are safe. So safe that I lost my Skype account to some random French hacker in 2014 and still can't get it back even though it was created with my email address.

Luckily I've found no reason to pay Microsoft for anything in nearly 2 decades.

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Post by NetBeck »

evolveyourmind wrote: post #104

Imagine the impact of such a crash to the whole humanity in the next years. Api crashes and suddenly all bots crash and half of the world is stuck for some hours

“We have to push back the product launch date. The AI bot is down and that one employee that knows how computers work was laid off due to redundancy.”
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