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AI’s Instagram Problem

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Re: AI’s Instagram Problem

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Post by prophesi »

matwood wrote: post #34
lakomen wrote: post #12

Idk about AI having an Instagram problem, but I know Instagram has an AI problem. So many fake accounts with AI as actors and they send you chat messages trying to pretend to be real people. They even react to comments and can discern good from bad comments. At first it was interesting. Now it's just annoying. Then the Instagram algorithm, if you comment on coffee ads that you drink tea, you'll get tea ads. It will s…

IDK. Seems like usual social media that it’s all about who you follow.

Not the OP, but it seems like the actual usage of the platform caused the most trouble for them. From my own anecdotal experience of using modern day social media, it seems who you follow establishes the baseline of what garbage they send your way. But any sort of engagement, even down to which posts you hover over the longest, quickly influences your feed.

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Post by flangola7 »

nl wrote: post #24
minimaxir wrote: post #7

All AI projects are valuable, but it's annoying and demotivating to work hard on a unique and useful project and have no one read/use it because it doesn't stand out in the extremely rapidly-evolving ecosystem. Most of my AI text-generation and image-generation projects and tools have already become obsolete by technology released in the past few months, and I've almost given up competing.

Don't be discouraged. Your work is good. And remember we are 6-12 months off having good, open source chatGPT class open source models and the software support to make it possible to run them at home.

We're also 6-12 months off from having the first strong AI restrictions.

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Post by ChatGTP »

notpachet wrote: post #15
lakomen wrote: post #12

Idk about AI having an Instagram problem, but I know Instagram has an AI problem. So many fake accounts with AI as actors and they send you chat messages trying to pretend to be real people. They even react to comments and can discern good from bad comments. At first it was interesting. Now it's just annoying. Then the Instagram algorithm, if you comment on coffee ads that you drink tea, you'll get tea ads. It will s…

> Instagram is so disgusting. Why are you still using it? (Not trying to troll you, I'm legitimately curious -- it really doesn't sound like it's offering you anything positive at this point)

Not parent, because of the contacts I have, I literally can’t get off it because of this.

I’d delete my account instantly otherwise.

Edit: I have a plan to stop adding people on there I want to keep in contact with. A phase out plan.

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Post by swyx »

minimaxir wrote: post #7

All AI projects are valuable, but it's annoying and demotivating to work hard on a unique and useful project and have no one read/use it because it doesn't stand out in the extremely rapidly-evolving ecosystem. Most of my AI text-generation and image-generation projects and tools have already become obsolete by technology released in the past few months, and I've almost given up competing.

don't give up max, you're tremendously inspirational to the rest of us who are even further behind in trying to keep up with what's happening. you're by far one of the best simplifiers/explainers of whats going on who actually regularly builds useful stuff. its just a matter of time until you hit the thing that goes vertical, and all this work to date will have been practice. you can only connect the dots looking back.

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Post by bogomipz »

version_five wrote: post #14

This is correct, but there's also some meta comment to be made that research has an "instragram problem". What he's talking about isn't really even AI so much as deep learning: there are lots of other branches that now get virtually no play relative to deep learning. And then there are all sorts of adjacent CS, image processing (when was the last time you saw someone talk about wavelets), language analysis, and other…

>"What he's talking about isn't really even AI so much as deep learning: there are lots of other branches that now get virtually no play relative to deep learning."

Can you say what are some of non-Deep Learning branches in AI that aren't getting play relative Machine Learning/Deep Learning?

Re: AI’s Instagram Problem

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Post by minimaxir »

swyx wrote: post #44
minimaxir wrote: post #7

All AI projects are valuable, but it's annoying and demotivating to work hard on a unique and useful project and have no one read/use it because it doesn't stand out in the extremely rapidly-evolving ecosystem. Most of my AI text-generation and image-generation projects and tools have already become obsolete by technology released in the past few months, and I've almost given up competing.

don't give up max, you're tremendously inspirational to the rest of us who are even further behind in trying to keep up with what's happening. you're by far one of the best simplifiers/explainers of whats going on who actually regularly builds useful stuff. its just a matter of time until you hit the thing that goes vertical, and all this work to date will have been practice. you can only connect the dots looking bac…

thanks :)

Re: AI’s Instagram Problem

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Post by beepbooptheory »

Aren't we maybe jumping the gun here a little? Human creations are far better still than AI ones.

People seem to (very understandably) conflate "impressive because of the technology" with "good," but either way thats not going to last forever, even for the most passionate AI-heads. We will take this stuff for granted pretty soon here, and then inevitability remember again what actually enjoying and connecting with a work of art or song or film is.

I think its probably impossible to actually appreciate an AI work on its own terms right now, simply because its too loaded with external significance. You can't take it in without considering what it means to like it or not. In this, we seem collectively to be erring on the side of saying its positive or worthwhile if only because of the promise each AI work carries with itself.

This makes the fervor and proselytizing of some make sense to me at least. Most people have better taste than enthusiasm for AI art would seem to show.

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Post by dheera »

version_five wrote: post #14

This is correct, but there's also some meta comment to be made that research has an "instragram problem". What he's talking about isn't really even AI so much as deep learning: there are lots of other branches that now get virtually no play relative to deep learning. And then there are all sorts of adjacent CS, image processing (when was the last time you saw someone talk about wavelets), language analysis, and other…

> This is why academic research is so important.

The problem is academia just doesn't pay a livable salary these days. When I'm getting hit with thousands of dollars of medical bills on a regular basis, despite having insurance, having a corporate salary cushion helps for peace of mind. A lot.

Re: AI’s Instagram Problem

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Post by propogandist »

PaulHoule wrote: post #38
interestica wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure it's clear what viewpoint you're referring to.

The viewpoint described in the article, particularly the emotion of envy. I have been working on this stuff since 2005 or so and I can do more than I ever did and if there is one thing I am certain of it is that other people are going to research things and publish even better models in the future that I'm going to download from huggingface or whatever comes next. (On the other hand the fact that I know how to pose w…

how do you convince clients to improve data collection?
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