Some tree was chopped to print this garbage. Think about it.
They're ebooks. So no trees chopped. Just oil burnt.
Top comment has a link to a video of a dead tree version.
Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
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Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
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I genuinely feel that chatGPT has been neutered. It used to be much better at writing like a human given the right prompt. Now I can't get it to write like one at all. Which makes me wonder what they're using the non-neutered chatGPT for...
It could be that our pattern recognizers are outsmarting the AI after a while. In the beginning noone noticed the difference and now anything written by AI has a bit of fake/dusted off feel to it. I'm sure the next generation will outsmart us again.
You're up against increasingly powerful computers and models. You're going to lose in the end.
I worry that in the final analysis our conclusion will land on "yes we made this technology because we were excited by the possibility of the benefits, but sadly it turned out to really not have been worth the downsides"
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> You can spot it by the very verbose answers that don't say anything meaningful. I've been doing that online for years! Does this mean ChatGPT be taking my hobby away?
no, just rebrand as artisanal. there'll be some future designation similar to "organic" for text strings that originated from a human brain.
Eating an American diet, I definitely cannot be considered organic.
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#154So obviously what he's doing is unethical. The quality of the information is pretty bad...
But what about, say, selling a coffee table art book. "Visions of the Future" - like 50 good quality scifi images with captions generated by, oh, Midjourney?
15-20% profit margin on a $20 print on demand book... Wouldn't do it myself but it doesn't feel wrong? I assume people would pay for that just for the art itself in a physical form, it doesn't have accuracy requirements or anything..
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This [1] is, to my knowledge, the latest word on who'd own the copyright. And the answer is most likely the author, with the second most likely candidate being nobody. In a nutshell, "AI" generated content itself cannot be copyrighted since the process is carried out by software instead of a human, and software cannot be assigned ownership of copyright. However, material that is sufficiently recombined in a 'creative…
> software cannot be assigned ownership of copyright. More precisely, only human works are subject to copyright. The law simply doesn’t apply to works by animals, AIs, or anything else, even when they are as creative as a human.
So the next business model is to simply copy every work that isn't copyrightable and put it up for sale yourself. Nothing stopping you and you may as well.
Exponential growth!
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon reviews and ratings are still useful signal if you know how to interpret: 1. Anything less than 4.6 is probably junk. 2. Ignore the 4-5 star reviews, only read the 1-3 star reviews 3. Really read them. 4. A good product will still generally have 2-3% of reviews at 1 star. Less than 2% is a red flag, more than 4% is also a red flag.
Or, even better, just don't buy from Amazon. I honestly can't think of any advantage to buying from Amazon anymore.
The irony is you can now read the reviews on Amazon and make up your mind if you want to but it, and then go buy it from somewhere else even, quelle horreur, a local bricks and mortar bookshop.
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#157Hm... The back cover of the data mesh book reads: "Data Mesh: Architecting Data Infrastructure for Agility and Innovation with Data Mesh" is a groundbreaking book that presents a new paradigm for managing data at scale. Written by Zhamak Dehghani, a software engineer and thought leader at ThoughtWorks, the book ..."
She is the author of the O’Reilly Data Mesh book, but I don’t think it has that as its title.
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The degree to which a human has to be creative is very minimal. As SCOTUS said in Feist v. Rural: > "the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice" Literally throwing paint at a canvas is enough to suffice. Arranging the prerequisite conditions and coaxing a monkey into taking a selfie is probably enough as well (as long as you don't hire PETA's dumb lawyers who want to argue f…
I think it needs to be evaluated relative to the volume of the work. If you take a novel in the public domain and just change a few sentences, I don’t think you can claim copyright for the modified novel.
That’s true, but the output of something like chatGPT isn’t an existing work. The author’s prompt caused it to be created.
I think it will ultimately hinge on whether courts find the totality of the process to be creative enough to constitute a “modicum of creativity”
My prediction is that courts will eventually rule that something like writing a prompt is enough. I think too much would be upended to rule otherwise.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or, even better, just don't buy from Amazon. I honestly can't think of any advantage to buying from Amazon anymore.
The irony is you can now read the reviews on Amazon and make up your mind if you want to but it, and then go buy it from somewhere else even, quelle horreur, a local bricks and mortar bookshop.
I think the reviews on Amazon are worse than worthless. I wouldn't read them to help make my mind up about any purchase.
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#160“If only there was a way to somehow detect all this spam and garbage on out platform” - Amazon’s tenured principal engineers with 500k salaries, probably.
“Try banning items where every review is 5 stars and every reviewer has a middle name for some reason.” - me to the rescue.