Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
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Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
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Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#2its sad he took the site down, it looks like a neat project. it seems to be fair use, so it really is just an issue of consent and keeping people happy. the issue is some people will always be fearful/miserable. should the rest of us be held back in exploring culture because they refuse to play?
anyway i'm sure there will be ten other similar sites by the end of the week...
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#3I’m with the artists on this one. Our obsession with converting everything into input for an algorithm that spits out an ill-defined number (what the hell is “vividness”?) needs to stop.
We already tried this with human communication and gave birth to the dystopian nightmare that is social media, why keep repeating our mistakes?
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#4This is an incredibly biased article, hinging entirely on the assumption that AI training is fair use.
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#5Something that we need to learn is that these brief outbreaks on social media burn themselves out pretty quickly. Everyone shouts for a bit and then moves onto to the next bit of manufactured outrage.
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#6its sad he took the site down, it looks like a neat project. it seems to be fair use, so it really is just an issue of consent and keeping people happy. the issue is some people will always be fearful/miserable. should the rest of us be held back in exploring culture because they refuse to play? anyway i'm sure there will be ten other similar sites by the end of the week...
With CLOUD and AI happily in the descriptions, with no private desktop version, and your email to sign up, please.
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#7I’m with the artists on this one. Our obsession with converting everything into input for an algorithm that spits out an ill-defined number (what the hell is “vividness”?) needs to stop. We already tried this with human communication and gave birth to the dystopian nightmare that is social media, why keep repeating our mistakes?
As the article stated, there is nothing either legally or morally wrong with what the site did, and many authors found it useful. Let us know when you come up with an actual counterargument based on reason instead of an appeal to emotion fallacy.
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#8This is an incredibly biased article, hinging entirely on the assumption that AI training is fair use.
Unfortunately it seems majority of HN clings on "AI is fair use!" the same way GIFs (of movie and TV snippets) are "perceived to be fair use" (but is simply not fair use in most cases).
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#9its sad he took the site down, it looks like a neat project. it seems to be fair use, so it really is just an issue of consent and keeping people happy. the issue is some people will always be fearful/miserable. should the rest of us be held back in exploring culture because they refuse to play? anyway i'm sure there will be ten other similar sites by the end of the week...
“That book’s vividness score (TM) is 75% opposed to that other book’s vividness score (TM) which is only 50%! That’s, like, a 50% higher culture score (TM)!”
Re: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
#10This is an incredibly biased article, hinging entirely on the assumption that AI training is fair use.
There is no “AI” in the project. It literally just seems to do Bayesian sentiment analysis of books. It does NOT then mine that data to score OTHER books. Please actually read the article next time before commenting