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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

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Re: A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

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I think this could lead to interesting results outside the legalities. Imagine you're getting it to spit out lord of the rings, but midway through you inject into the output 'Suddenly, the ring split in two. No longer one ring to rule them all, but two!'. You then let the model write the rest of the story!

I'm sure many people have imaged this - supposing that LLMs, while making no great strides towards AGI, consciousness, or any of that, nonetheless keep getting better and better at what they do now. Imagine a decade or two of steady improvements, throw in at least a couple of major breakthroughs. Much longer context by a few orders of magnitude. Much better quality, in terms of tone, consistency, hallucinations. Mayb…

I love that, and only wanted to nitpick that not only are there "at least five rings" in the story, but a full score (20): 9 for men, 7 for dwarves, 3 for elves and the one ring.

Re: A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

#222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure many people have imaged this - supposing that LLMs, while making no great strides towards AGI, consciousness, or any of that, nonetheless keep getting better and better at what they do now. Imagine a decade or two of steady improvements, throw in at least a couple of major breakthroughs. Much longer context by a few orders of magnitude. Much better quality, in terms of tone, consistency, hallucinations. Mayb…

I love that, and only wanted to nitpick that not only are there "at least five rings" in the story, but a full score (20): 9 for men, 7 for dwarves, 3 for elves and the one ring.

Damn you're right, it's been too many years since I read it. I was following on from the previous comment talking about splitting the ring in two.
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