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Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by capableweb »

frozenwind wrote: post #9

For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questionabl…

> For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questionable). The rest will be a cesspool of meaningless information. Just as sailors of the sea are experts at navigating the waters, so we'll have to learn to surf the web once again.

I'm not sure what rock you've been living under, but this has been the internet for probably longer than a decade by now, the only difference is the volume. Even back before LLMs, or before Facebook, you couldn't take any "fact" at face value when found via the internet. And before that, the same people who fall for it now on the internet, fell for it when watching TV, or reading newspapers. People who are not interested in truth because it doesn't fit their world-view, will never be interested in the truth, no matter what medium it comes via.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by courgette »

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #3

And now we truly know why GPT insists to say "as an AI model" when we break a rule. It's precisely this. Like a signature, so we find it out in the wild when it's abused.

I try really hard to prompt it to replace it with something else. It acknowledges and agree to it. Did it maybe once or twice, then reverted back to the old “As a AI model”

IIRC, I was trying to see if it could replace by “as a LLM”.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by frozenwind »

capableweb wrote: post #11
frozenwind wrote: post #9

For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questionabl…

> For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questiona…

I am aware of that. I like to think that millenials/gen-z at least knew a little how to sift through the fake information, and the gullible people were the elders. But now with such obscene amounts of fake info at every corner, I think the internet and all source of information (even printed! - because printed at least would require significant effort) will loose credibility. Science will be the last bastion, and even that can easily be influenced by money.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by jruohonen »

Having watched the discussion here for the past couple of days, I agree with frozenwind's comment. I wrote my own reflection here (the last comment):

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-a...

Regarding impacts upon academia, I wrote two comments here:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/04/12/guest-post-gp...

I'd also like to emphasize that it is not only about open source LLMs. I haven't followed the situation myself, but some sources say that LLMs are being developed also in the dark web, and who knows what kind of content the criminals there possess? (Borderline cases like NoiseGPT are already done openly.) Given the current geopolitical situation, the same goes for nation states. Fun times ahead indeed.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by yobbo »

Prose used to function as proof-of-work for humans everywhere - marketing, academia, and so on. Credibility was assigned based on the quality (and quantity) of the language instead of the content.

I see mostly positive effects of this ending.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by Mashimo »

oe wrote: post #16

A danish electronics store tried to generate translations using GPT: https://www.proshop.fi/?s=as+an+ai+model "Sorry, as an AI language model, I cannot translate random letter and number combinations like "HD29HLVx" into Finnish or any other language."

Haha, that is hilarious.

I wonder why they did not just use deepl or similar that is made for exactly this. Anyhow, I will let them know.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Post by usrbinbash »

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #3

And now we truly know why GPT insists to say "as an AI model" when we break a rule. It's precisely this. Like a signature, so we find it out in the wild when it's abused.

Except this only works when people are using ChatGPT (the web app). The API doesn't do that.
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