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No nudging. This was the whole interaction: https://gist.github.com/jcheng5/c6f15f4c3dc31bf15ab44683ad6a...
This is a gist, not an interaction with Claude AI. Can you share actual interaction on their site?
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> But if it's for some personal project that you're putting on Github, does it matter? I don't think the fear is that they'll steal code you'll end putting publicly on GitHub, but everything else. I guess there is some fear that it won't just analyze and process what you currently have open, but might scrape your computer for more data and so on. I personally don't believe ByteDance would be stupid enough to even att…
Trust em or not … had that happen to someone else using Cursor a few weeks back. I ran a prompt for refactoring a function and all of a sudden it started dumping someone else’s directory structure and file contents into my text file. Like hundreds of files. Not exactly sure what happened but I immediately uninstalled Cursor.
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> But if it's for some personal project that you're putting on Github, does it matter? I don't think the fear is that they'll steal code you'll end putting publicly on GitHub, but everything else. I guess there is some fear that it won't just analyze and process what you currently have open, but might scrape your computer for more data and so on. I personally don't believe ByteDance would be stupid enough to even att…
Trust em or not … had that happen to someone else using Cursor a few weeks back. I ran a prompt for refactoring a function and all of a sudden it started dumping someone else’s directory structure and file contents into my text file. Like hundreds of files. Not exactly sure what happened but I immediately uninstalled Cursor.
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ByteDance is ready to close TikTok rather than divest and earn billions of dollars. Does that sound like a business or an intelligence front?
No one with even a pretension to dignity would just cave in the face of force. Although, they do seem willing to sell potentially. China restricted them from selling their recommendation algorithm, and it's hard to sell TikTok without. But, TikTok did immediately start work on an independent algorithm that has no ties to China, so that they can sell it if it really comes down to it.
And you are telling me this is perfectly normal.
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> That's like saying, there's literally nothing a service business can do for you that you can't do yourself. No, it’s not. You’re making my statement abstract for the sake of arguing. I’m not a cook, doctor, or a lawyer. I can’t prepare meals for a party of more than 2. I can’t perform surgery. I can’t effectively defend myself in a court of law. I (and I assume OP) have programming expertise. I can write exactly al…
> No, it’s not. You’re making my statement abstract for the sake of arguing. > I’m not a cook, doctor, or a lawyer. I can’t prepare meals for a party of more than 2. They are demonstrating how over-broad your own statement was with an * equivalent* statement to show how it only passes on an unhelpful technicality. Immediately after your quotation is this: > you only need to spend 5+ years in medical school + whatever…
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> it also seems to be a better creative writer than I am, at least for short pieces Don’t be so hard on yourself. Chatgpt (and other LLMs) are awful at creative prose.
> Chatgpt (and other LLMs) are awful at creative prose. As are most humans. Don't get me wrong, what I've seen from even the better LLMs have a certain voice and tropes and sacherine worldview that isn't dark enough where it needs to be for the story to work; but on the other hand, what I see on some fiction writing subreddits… the AI is often a genuine improvement over amateur writers, even in cases where the AI con…
What point are you trying to make here? That amateur writers are amateurs? That AI is only "often" an improvement over an amateur?
> Which is frustrating, because I have the feeling the novel I've been trying to finish writing for the last decade may be usurped by AI before I get my final draft.
This statement shows such a warped attitude towards art and the creative process. What do you mean "usurped?" Do you actually believe that LLMs will overtake humans when it comes to creative works?
If so, you don't really understand what is compelling about the written word or what makes for good writing and reading and it's no wonder you feel as though your own writing is so substandard.
I highly doubt your writing is that bad. Especially if you've been working on it for a decade.
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What a weird way of thinking. If you act so pedantic anyway, you can stop coding simply 1 percent earlier each day, since your boss would not notice anyway. Personally I live in Belgium and I would be glad to pay 20 euros per month if it increases my productivity, as noticed by my boss or not. The real problem however is, I cannot simply share my employer's repos to be absorbed by any LLM out there. So I use only the…
I was only embodying the mindset in the comment I was replying to. Thinking in terms like “My time is worth $X, so if I do Y thing that takes Z minutes, that’s D dollars saved.” It gets really hairy and leads people down false paths where they think they’re being super “rational” all the time. In this case it tricks you because it assumes that the LLMs increase productivity and launders that into the calculation. For…
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> No, it’s not. You’re making my statement abstract for the sake of arguing. > I’m not a cook, doctor, or a lawyer. I can’t prepare meals for a party of more than 2. They are demonstrating how over-broad your own statement was with an * equivalent* statement to show how it only passes on an unhelpful technicality. Immediately after your quotation is this: > you only need to spend 5+ years in medical school + whatever…
Of course a memorization machine can pass exams that are mostly based on memorization.
LLMs only started to because they could follow the questions.
But even that aside, it doesn't matter why LLMs can do what they can do or what else can also do that, what matters is that it would take most humans several years to get to the level of current LLMs in a subject that human isn't already familiar with.
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To me USA and China are both foreign nations, and USA is the one who is far more aggressive in terms of army and spies. So as a non USA citizen, I'm way more afraid of USA than I am of China.
I think you're unaware of just how aggressive China is. Look at their neighbours and their policies - they don't have a single friend because everyone is afraid of their bullying behaviour backed up by their military. Look at conquered regions like Tibet and Xinjiang. Look at how they set up police forces in foreign countries to keep an eye on Chinese citizens living abroad. Even having kidnapped and illegally held C…