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I find the editorialization of my title hilarious. I did not put a ? at the end. The answer to any headline with a ? at the end is “no.” Whoever at HN edited it — this is not alright. Feel free to argue against the piece on its merits.
> There is no question that Reddit is extremely valuable as training data. How often do you append “reddit” to your searches? Is it? When I worked in networking, and later web dev work I found Reddit to be a TERRIBLE place for Q & A type situations. Answers on Reddit are often skewed by truthy answers from people with limited perspective in the industry who are surprisingly sort of militant about a given topic. For e…
Yes. For anything from opinions of movies/games to DIY advice to nerdy stuff like the best watch to buy in a given price range or the best synthesiser. Or people's opinions on a particular episode of TV! Or basically any hobby. It's not great for business stuff because there are way more people using e.g. AWS for their hobby project than running multi-million $ businesses on it. What are the alternatives? Facebook an…
Walled garden is marketing speak. Don't use it. Use curated/controlled/whatever described the closed nature.
It spins what would otherwise be a negative term into one that gives images of delicious fruits, vegetables and beautiful flowers.
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I genuinely don't understand the appeal of AI for search. The provenance of information is just as important as the resulting information for pretty much anything I search for. I almost never accept a single search result as authoritative unless I'm pretty familiar with the source. Reddit in particular seems like a terrible set of training data. Pretty much any opinion is going to have a counter-opinion somewhere in…
It's funny that you mention recipes at the end because that's exactly what I like to use ChatGPT for. Every single recipe site has been so corrupted by SEO that you need to scroll past 12 paragraphs of nonsense to get to the actual recipe, and more often than not once you actually get to the recipe part you'll be bombarded with popups about newsletters and cookies or some late-loading ad will cause the view to shift…
My prediction: By 2025, you'll be able to purchase sponsored sentences and sponsored paragraphs in ChatGPT's (or whoever's on top) output.
The leaked Google memo "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" is instructive here: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne... Original author is an ML researcher, and the crux of his argument is that most weights in a LLM are significantly overdetermined. Once you have ingested several terabytes of natural language, you know how to generate natural language. The remaining misses are facts tha…
more than anything, AI/ML/DL enables people to make claims that cannot be refuted by any application of the scientific method. it's literally "not even wrong" in exactly the same way as people claim string theory is.
This turn of phrase almost always is followed by an argument you don't have to bother reading because it is wrong.
And then one fine day; some random guy has a local/private LLM trained to browse his facebook groups as him, his account gets deactivated meta; he sues arguing in court about right of using his own tool to mine personal data.
Maybe a little off-topic here, but if they use Twitter and Reddit as datasets to train their LLMs, how can they guarantee that the AI models will be unbiased. Prejudice, hatred, and ill intentions can all be very delicate to identify.
I don't think anyone is making any credible guarantee that any AI model is unbiased.
It’s a fun thought experiment, but I tend to revert to the simpler explanation: They’re cutting off third party apps to increase their control over the user experience, to show more ads. The relationship with OpenAI might also be a thing, but I think it’s the ad numbers they need to juice for their IPO.
Of course, I think another good explanation is that, OpenAI aside, Reddit simply wants to get paid for their data, which they now realize is valuable. Scraping aside, that might be the real goal here.
I find the editorialization of my title hilarious. I did not put a ? at the end. The answer to any headline with a ? at the end is “no.” Whoever at HN edited it — this is not alright. Feel free to argue against the piece on its merits.