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Yes. I love black text on white background. A rare find these days. Browsing today is like: “You ask for a spaghetti recipe and the page tell you the whole history of civilization.”
Thats specific to recipes because they can’t be copyrighted
Also, note to self to collect my favourite recipes in markdown files from now on.
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My understanding is that google went from a more traditional database style which supported such queries, to a newer "n-gram" index with a layer of semantic similarity. Notably, you can no longer put a sentence in quotes to only find pages that contain that exact phrase. Also, the order of words matters more now than it used to (where the old search engines treated a space as AND, so order was irrelevant outside of q…
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+can+no+longer+put+a+s...
I wonder if there will be a human information/knowledge equivalent of low-background steel (pre-WWII/nukes). Data from before a certain point won't be 'contaminated' with LLM stuff, but it'll be everywhere after that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
People are vastly everestimating how unique this problem of hallucinations is. It seems to me it relies mostly on discounting just how much we've already had to deal with this same problem in humans over the millenia. The problem of proliferation of bad information might be getting worse, but this isn't native to generative AI. The entire informational ecosystem has to deal with this. GPTs compound the issue, but as…
with AI this limit is all but removed
all the human generated bullshit ever created will soon be dwarfed by what AI can vomit out in an hour
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> The temptation to use these technologies all the time is too strong for even self preservation of your own (writers) voice. I don't know about that. I have played with ChatGPT/Copilot/etc enough to know what they're capable of doing. But the thing is, I enjoy programming. I enjoy breaking down a problem and solving it with code. I enjoy crafting elegant code. So I don't use AI even though I'm fully aware it could s…
> So I don't use AI even though I'm fully aware it could save me hours on projects. Enjoy this luxury while it lasts. Based on what I have seen in performance review committees for software developers, your peers who drive results faster than you do because they use AI will be rewarded more and will be more likely to survive rounds of layoffs when they inevitably happen.
More amusing and frightening is when people search about themselves and turn up AI generated crap. Googling yourself was always a lucky grab bag, with the possibility of long-forgotten embarrassments being dragged up. But at least you'd have to face facts. Now I hear of people discovering they're in prison, married to random people they've never met, or are actually already dead. What is this going to do to recon on…
My real name is very, very common -- so this has been my reality for my entire life.
These days, I have grown to appreciate it. It's like an invisibility superpower.
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The type of sites GP is talking about are typically hosted on .edu servers, under faculty webhosting (often featuring a "/~profname/" in the url). That's a non-trivial signal.
~/name at an edu is pretty attainable. .edu domains can be had for any otherwise eligible "U.S.-based postsecondary institutions" per Educause: https://net.educause.edu/eligibility.htm > Pages at extant domains might variously be available to undergraduate or graduate students, faculty, staff, and adjuncts. Those might either directly host emulative material or be convinced or compromised into hosting content. If the…
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People are vastly everestimating how unique this problem of hallucinations is. It seems to me it relies mostly on discounting just how much we've already had to deal with this same problem in humans over the millenia. The problem of proliferation of bad information might be getting worse, but this isn't native to generative AI. The entire informational ecosystem has to deal with this. GPTs compound the issue, but as…
humans can only produce semi-convincing bullshit at a limited rate with AI this limit is all but removed all the human generated bullshit ever created will soon be dwarfed by what AI can vomit out in an hour
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Those simple web 1.0 sites made by college professors are a gold-standard in my book. I always enjoy finding them in search results. Although they are becoming increasingly rare.
Can't prove it, but it seems to me like black text on white background sites from the past are poorly ranked compared to sites with "modern" layouts.
As time goes on, even the amount of text I am putting out get trimmed down. Make the words count, don't count the words.
I wonder if there will be a human information/knowledge equivalent of low-background steel (pre-WWII/nukes). Data from before a certain point won't be 'contaminated' with LLM stuff, but it'll be everywhere after that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
People are vastly everestimating how unique this problem of hallucinations is. It seems to me it relies mostly on discounting just how much we've already had to deal with this same problem in humans over the millenia. The problem of proliferation of bad information might be getting worse, but this isn't native to generative AI. The entire informational ecosystem has to deal with this. GPTs compound the issue, but as…
Humans always assemble information according to a standard of truth. It is a big part of how humans learn. No method is perfect but the human method results in fewer routine hallucinations.
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> So I don't use AI even though I'm fully aware it could save me hours on projects. Enjoy this luxury while it lasts. Based on what I have seen in performance review committees for software developers, your peers who drive results faster than you do because they use AI will be rewarded more and will be more likely to survive rounds of layoffs when they inevitably happen.
That's fine. I genuinely wouldn't want to continue working in an industry that worked like that anyway, so I'd just quit and keep on programming with my own projects. So that luxury will last as long as I want it to.
If the job changes that drastically I'll just have to quit and find something else.