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Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
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Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
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Are you saying we shouldn’t be skeptical as well? Are you basing this on things he’s said or things he’s done?
When someone shows you who they are, pay attention.
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#43LLMs have benefits, but it's a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human. It seems like public keys and web of trust are the future in terms of knowing that there is a human on the other end of the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party But, I don't know what happens when a cloud of LLMs get t…
> a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human
why does the pedigree matter if the content stands on its own as valid content?
Do you care that your call is answered by someone in india, or the US, if you are given sufficient answer/support with the call?
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Tbh, the phrasing of this comment sounds suspiciously like AI
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These reporters know The article is an opinion piece by an external contributor; the author is not a reporter. From the end of TFA: > Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He was founder and CEO of machine learning company Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber, and is the author of six books, including the forthcoming Taming Silicon Valley (MIT Press) > there are CEO’s There…
Seriously? You’re going to play this game?
Welcome to Hacker News, where studied types do their nitpicking.
Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
#46LLMs have benefits, but it's a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human. It seems like public keys and web of trust are the future in terms of knowing that there is a human on the other end of the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party But, I don't know what happens when a cloud of LLMs get t…
> a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human why does the pedigree matter if the content stands on its own as valid content? Do you care that your call is answered by someone in india, or the US, if you are given sufficient answer/support with the call?
If the AI can update its beliefs based on a conversation, then yes it would still be a win.
If not, you're talking to a very articulate thick-headed person who can argue you into a corner by deploying all manner of argumentative/persuasive patterns, but may never try to reach across the table for a compromise.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
In many cases, you can still tell when an article was written by an LLM, but I think that window is closing fast.
In some senses it already has, though not always how you meant: I was once accused of using ChatGPT to write a Reddit comment that I genuinely wrote myself without AI assistance. (I think the person disliked the substance of what I was arguing, the length of my comment, or both.)
It's becoming rather common. Saw it on LinkedIn a couple of days ago by someone posting an image of a job application, accusing it of using ChatGPT when it clearly wasn't. Incredibly ironic. People who couldn't even tell apart a "multifaceted" if their lives depended on it but make these wild accusations.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
But what about “assisted by” AI? Plenty of people use LLMs to enhance their writing abilities, like, say, ‘90s era grammar & spell check. Plenty of AI users are sophisticated enough to understand that dumping pure AI-Gen content is a bad idea. And what’s wrong with AI-enhanced speach?
Worse, OpenAI LLM pathologies are creeping into text written by actual humans because people are seeing so much garbage written by it that they're adopting its behavior. Turns out that there is more than one kind of learning machine in play online and both can pick up the bad behavior of the other.
That's nothing new. Actual humans have been writing businessy LinkedIn posts this way long before GPT-3 came out. I'd even say such posts are even more awful than what GPT produces by default.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human why does the pedigree matter if the content stands on its own as valid content? Do you care that your call is answered by someone in india, or the US, if you are given sufficient answer/support with the call?
If the AI can update its beliefs based on a conversation, then yes it would still be a win. If not, you're talking to a very articulate thick-headed person who can argue you into a corner by deploying all manner of argumentative/persuasive patterns, but may never try to reach across the table for a compromise.
I've certainly "won" some arguments with ChatGPT and Claude, even when I specifically tried to instruct them to never yield (to make it interesting). Even most of the "rules" they need to follow from their system level prompt can often be worked around with enough persuasion.
If anything I'd go so far to say that LLMs are innately more vulnerable to persuasion than humans are, they are technically just a complex text completion algorithm at the end of the day after all. Even with the strictest system prompt, the best they can do when cornered is bend the knee, devolve into a pattern of verbatim repeating themselves or just start spewing a bunch of gibberish in the worst case.
In reality stubborn thickheaded folks who refuse to compromise are pretty much the norm across social media in my experience, so even if LLMs really are capable of what you're suggesting here I don't believe there would actually be much of a difference to the status quo.
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This wasn’t written by a reporter. Takes one second to scroll to the end of article:
> Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He was founder and CEO of machine learning company Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber, and is the author of six books, including the forthcoming Taming Silicon Valley (MIT Press)