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AI may be making us think and write more alike

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Re: AI may be making us think and write more alike

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Post by plasticchris »

npsomaratna wrote: post #28
rdevilla wrote: post #7

This state of affairs presages the advent of a second dark age - one that will forever eclipse the era of radical openness & transparency that once served the software community for decades. Tips, tricks, life hacks and other expert techniques will once again be jealously guarded from the prying eyes of the LLM whok would steal their competitive advantage & replicate it at scale, until any possible information asymme…

Somehow made me think of Warhammer 40k (maybe pre men of iron?)

It’s a recurring theme, see dune’s references to Samuel Butler.

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Post by davebren »

sobiolite wrote: post #56

Human communication and reasoning is the end result of billions of years of evolution. I'd be very surprised if LLMs can fundamentally alter it in a few years. When considering phenomenon like these, I think people seriously underestimate what I'd call the "fashion effect". When a new technology, medium or aesthetic appears, it can have a surprisingly rapid influence on behaviour and discourse. The human social brain…

There's plenty of people communicating more with LLMs than humans right now, of course it's going to have an effect because our language and thought patterns are extremely adaptive to our environment. The communication system we are born with is extremely bare-bones/general so that it can absorb whatever language and culture we are born into.

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Post by bluefirebrand »

r_lee wrote: post #45
davebren wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was listening to one of Altman's more recent interviews and it sounded like he himself has LLM induced psychosis.

I remember him tweeting about how he can "feel the AGI" when speaking to GPT

Yeah, it's hard to say if he's doing marketing because that's his job or if he's really swallowed the whole pill

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Post by bluefirebrand »

pixl97 wrote: post #47
krige wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For many that's not a bonus, that's the goal. Consequence-free life ahoy.

Fun and games until the AI decides extincting us is worth it.

Unfortunately you can really tell which people haven't seriously considered that possibility or seriously don't care if it happens

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Post by tarkin2 »

People from a nation think and write alike because they share a common canon of literature and stories.

It's just a pity AI was trained on mindless, garbage business-speak, and now that's our globalised common literature.

And now we're feeding that regurgitated mindless, garbage business-speak back into AI models, thereby reinforcing the garbage and further rotting our minds.

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Post by mpalmer »

sobiolite wrote: post #56

Human communication and reasoning is the end result of billions of years of evolution. I'd be very surprised if LLMs can fundamentally alter it in a few years. When considering phenomenon like these, I think people seriously underestimate what I'd call the "fashion effect". When a new technology, medium or aesthetic appears, it can have a surprisingly rapid influence on behaviour and discourse. The human social brain…

Think of all the things that took hundreds/thousands/millions of years to develop and mature, which humans have managed to destroy in relatively short order.

Every 50 years we cycle out an entirely new batch of thinking humans. What cognitive legacy is it exactly that you think is going to be self-preserving?

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Post by dfxm12 »

Large language models may be standardizing human expression

I think it is important to distinguish "human expression" from copying a response from an LLM. Someone who outsources their thinking to an LLM is only offering an AI's expression. It's not human expression.

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rdevilla wrote: post #7

This state of affairs presages the advent of a second dark age - one that will forever eclipse the era of radical openness & transparency that once served the software community for decades. Tips, tricks, life hacks and other expert techniques will once again be jealously guarded from the prying eyes of the LLM whok would steal their competitive advantage & replicate it at scale, until any possible information asymme…

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Post by davebren »

rdevilla wrote: post #7

This state of affairs presages the advent of a second dark age - one that will forever eclipse the era of radical openness & transparency that once served the software community for decades. Tips, tricks, life hacks and other expert techniques will once again be jealously guarded from the prying eyes of the LLM whok would steal their competitive advantage & replicate it at scale, until any possible information asymme…

> Tips, tricks, life hacks and other expert techniques will once again be jealously guarded from the prying eyes of the LLM who would steal their competitive advantage & replicate it at scale

I've already started thinking this way, there's stuff I would have open sourced in the past but no longer will because I know it would get trained on. I'm not sure of any way I can share it with humans and only humans. If I let the LLMs have the UI patterns and libraries I've developed it would dilute my IP, like it has Studio Ghibli's art style.

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