Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 5:20 AM UTC

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #57

I have stopped using the "snake oil" epithet, because I found out an interesting background on that. Oils derived from various snakes in the desert were found to be effective treatments and remedies for various things by the Native American population, and therefore widely used by certain tribes. Once the White Man caught wind of this, he capitalized on its reputation, and a booming business of scams bloomed anywhere…

Post by mthoms » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 5:22 AM UTC

riku_iki wrote: post #53

struant wrote: post #48

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Doesn't matter. If governments blunder this and try to enforce copyrights in AI, then we are all going to be using Chinese AI in 5 years instead of Google because they don't give a damn about copyright.

CCP already created its own regulation rules for AI.

Post by bsilvereagle » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 5:27 AM UTC

yeahwhatever10 wrote: post #58

lIIllIIllIIllII wrote: post #10

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I'm routinely using LLMs in place of search engines. Would you rather type in a cocktail and instantly get a recipe? or do you want to open google, scroll past 50 ads, click through a bunch of blogspam that gives you the history of cocktails, the prohibition, the chemical formula for ethanol and their life story, followed by a recipe that was itself generated by a substandard AI model anyway edit: I'm prepared for th…

I prefer search engines because I can look through multiple sources. LLMs just give an answer without context or what alternatives might be. They make it difficult to judge to validity of the response.

Post by lhl » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

chargingmarmot wrote: post #35

danmur wrote: post #13

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If you pay for search you get some of those benefits already

Sincere question: what paid search do you have in mind? How conceptually could a paid search engine solve the problem of SEO and spam? (Curation seems economically infeasible?) Is what you're actually proposing ad-free search results? (I'd be willing to pay Google approximately $0.01 per search for this. I suspect this is probably more than they get from anything but the most expensive ads (pharma ads that confused o…

Post by pdntspa » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 5:37 AM UTC

TuringNYC wrote: post #23

viscanti wrote: post #15

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If blockchain did fulfill the claims of it revolutionizing the world of finance, it's still unlikely your kids would have become obsessed and regular users of it. If room temperature and pressure superconducting or nuclear fusion became viable, your kids might also be unlikely to play around with them on their own. Kids apparently love Roblox and most adults think the metaverse is dead. What kids like seems pretty or…

Point taken, but how about these: - My mom cant figure out Blockchain either - My sister (doctor) and brother (3 degrees) cant figure out Blockchain either, because they are too afraid of scanning the wrong QR code and having their balance drained My mom, sister, and brother all use ChatGPT. My brother uses it actively for work.