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ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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He is determined to see no value. Today I couldn’t find the mouse acceleration toggle in macOS, and google turned up a bunch of mediocre results I would have to sift through. ChatGPT just gave me the terminal command I was looking for immediately.

Or, I literally asked a factual question of Google (several times, although similar questions) and didn't get a bard generated response. Strange to read "Google searches aren't doing this for me" as "they are doing it for me and I don't like it"

So what was the question?

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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I'm actually worried of the inevitable enshitification of Open AI. Right now, GPT 4 is great and I use it every day. I rely less and less on Google and save a ton of time. Google has gone downhill hard for a few years, thanks to all these silly blog engines like medium, substack and the like. I'm really worried and would like to 'freeze' GPT 4 as is, at least with the data up to Sep 2021, and for them to not change o…

I'm almost hoping for some enshittification. It's so depressing seeing how many skills and jobs have been instantly devalued. Take a look at the artist communities and it's total depression that peoples life passion and source of income has just been deleted over the course of a few months. We aren't talking about burger flipping and checkout scanners. This is a creative pursuit which takes years of grinding to becom…

What's with the Luddite takes on HN? If you want to stop tech progress then why are you hanging out the forum of a tech accelerator? It would be great if we could keep this attitude to reddit, which has already gone down the drain.

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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Oh please. First of all, how do you steal an idea? We’re talking about pictures. Supposing that you buy into the theory that you can, copyright was created to further the arts and sciences; it’s in the US constitution. The point isn’t to control your work — it’s to live in a richer society. And it’s not even clear that training a model counts as infringement. Being able to recite a quote from a book is different than…

> Being able to recite a quote from a book is different than reproducing the entire book. Language models can often reproduce an entire book. And image models like midjourney can reproduce lots of copyrighted art more or less flawlessly: https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/some-light-infringeme...

That doesnt make training the models wrong, just using those specific outputs wrong.

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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Not even deleted! Actively stolen. No one has yet grappled with the reality that especially in the realm of generative art, these models do not work without a basis of absolutely stressful amounts of stolen artwork to train them. They simply do. Not. Exist. Without that baseline unethical contribution that tons of artists made without their knowledge and certainly without their consent. None of the major figures behi…

Oh please. First of all, how do you steal an idea? We’re talking about pictures. Supposing that you buy into the theory that you can, copyright was created to further the arts and sciences; it’s in the US constitution. The point isn’t to control your work — it’s to live in a richer society. And it’s not even clear that training a model counts as infringement. Being able to recite a quote from a book is different than…

>If he’s not worried, why are you?

Because he already got paid enough to keep him going during the forthcoming drought caused by AI absorbing all the water.

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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I'm almost hoping for some enshittification. It's so depressing seeing how many skills and jobs have been instantly devalued. Take a look at the artist communities and it's total depression that peoples life passion and source of income has just been deleted over the course of a few months. We aren't talking about burger flipping and checkout scanners. This is a creative pursuit which takes years of grinding to becom…

Not even deleted! Actively stolen. No one has yet grappled with the reality that especially in the realm of generative art, these models do not work without a basis of absolutely stressful amounts of stolen artwork to train them. They simply do. Not. Exist. Without that baseline unethical contribution that tons of artists made without their knowledge and certainly without their consent. None of the major figures behi…

I believe if you look further and deeper you'll reach the conclusion the real issue is how awful copyright laws are and more importantly, how absurd is the current economic system. Glorified markov chains are not the culprit here.

So the current movement where artists "shame" random joes for using a cool technology has only one possible outcome which is to push said average joes into being politically active in defense of AI. No one seems to want to properly organize and file a class-action, just twitter bickering.

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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I'm more interested in Open Source/Local LLM's ability to consume private data as an internal knowledgeable. For example, feed in your entire source repo(s) and then ask it questions about where something is or how it works.

I am constantly searching for this. To point a locally hosting LLM to a locally hosted code repo - and then start improving it from there would be awesome.

Depending on how serious you are about this (and how well you can slap together a few different python packages), it is very doable today.

Get one of the better llama versions fine-tuned on code (e.g. WizardCoder), take your entire code base and create embeddings from it, put those into a vector database.

Now, every time you ask your LLM a question about your code base, you first turn that prompt into an embedding and perform a search on your vector database. The results of that search are appended as context to the actual prompt before passing it to the LLM itself.

There's tons of packages that help with all of that, Langchain and Faiss are probably the most popular right now.

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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Not even deleted! Actively stolen. No one has yet grappled with the reality that especially in the realm of generative art, these models do not work without a basis of absolutely stressful amounts of stolen artwork to train them. They simply do. Not. Exist. Without that baseline unethical contribution that tons of artists made without their knowledge and certainly without their consent. None of the major figures behi…

Oh please. First of all, how do you steal an idea? We’re talking about pictures. Supposing that you buy into the theory that you can, copyright was created to further the arts and sciences; it’s in the US constitution. The point isn’t to control your work — it’s to live in a richer society. And it’s not even clear that training a model counts as infringement. Being able to recite a quote from a book is different than…

So let’s say in 10 years they have the processing power to generate full movies on demand. OpenAI trains its model on all movies from IMDB. Then I ask ChatGPT to produce a movie « like » avengers but with the faces of all my friends. And I just pay the 20$ fee (or 200$ by then) to OpenAI and watch my movie. Then I can ask to tweak some parts of the story and update the movie in real time. And this for any movie. Given the budget of 220 millions for the one movie I quoted, OpenAI will never give back anything money to them. Or to any movie producer.

Does that seems ok to you ? Today it’s the books and pictures but later it’s going to be anything.

I mean to produce anything it requires time, effort, money. They steal the end result, and produce any variation possible and make money out of it.

Your point would only be valid if OpenAI would be 100% free. It’s not

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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Oh please. First of all, how do you steal an idea? We’re talking about pictures. Supposing that you buy into the theory that you can, copyright was created to further the arts and sciences; it’s in the US constitution. The point isn’t to control your work — it’s to live in a richer society. And it’s not even clear that training a model counts as infringement. Being able to recite a quote from a book is different than…

> Being able to recite a quote from a book is different than reproducing the entire book. Language models can often reproduce an entire book. And image models like midjourney can reproduce lots of copyrighted art more or less flawlessly: https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/some-light-infringeme...

It's possible with Google Docs too. The whackiest thing the other day was that I was using the screenshot tool in MacOS and it made a screenshot of copyrighted content. I was flabbergasted. The tool just did it with 4 parameters.

Re: ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”

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> I'd like to have LawGPT I tried ChatGPT 4 for a specific TX county's laws. This was after I had spent hours doing traditional search. ChatGPT got everything correct, and even gave me some more direction.

> ChatGPT got everything correct My anecdote with technical information is exactly the opposite, unfortunately. I routinely use it to help guide my research - generally about topics I know something about but want to know more. It often will provide some response that is entirely wrong but looks very good. When called out, it apologizes, then proceeds to produce more information that's also not entirely correct. Ther…

Yeah, it's true. Even today, I notice that I can often find things using Google while other people can't. I guess it's just a skill and some people lack it.
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