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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by rebuilder »

jrjfjgkrj wrote: post #47
swyx wrote: post #4

somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head (wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher s…

every human generation built upon the slop of the previous one but we appreciated that, we called it "standing on the shoulders of giants"

That's because the things we built on weren't slop

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by [deleted] »

jrjfjgkrj wrote: post #47
swyx wrote: post #4

somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head (wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher s…

every human generation built upon the slop of the previous one but we appreciated that, we called it "standing on the shoulders of giants"

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Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by finaard »

Cadwhisker wrote: post #39
permo-w wrote: post #29

besides for training future models, is this really such a big deal? most of the AI-gened text content is just replacing content-farm SEO-spam anyway. the same stuff that any half-awares person wouldn't have read in the past is now slightly better written, using more em dashes and instances of the word "delve". if you're consistently being caught out by this stuff then likely you need to improve your search hygiene, n…

In the past, I'd find one wrong answer and I could easily spot the copies. Now there's a dozen different sites with the same wrong answer, just with better formatting and nicer text.

The trick is to only search for topics where there are no answers, or only one answer leading to that blog post you wrote 10 years ago and forgot about.

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by permo-w »

venturecruelty wrote: post #32
k_roy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shrug. Sure. Point still stands. It’s not going anywhere. And the literal hate and pure vitriol I’ve seen towards people on social media, even when they say “oh yeah; this is AI”, is unbelievable. So many online groups have just become toxic shitholes because someone once or twice a week posts something AI generated

The entire US GDP for the last few quarters is being propped up by GPU vendors and one singular chatbot company, all betting that they can make a trillion dollars on $20-per-month "it's not just X, it's Y" Markov chain generators. We have six to 12 more months of this before the first investor says "wait a minute, we're not making enough money", and the house of cards comes tumbling down. Also, maybe consider why peo…

I feel like this is the kind of dodgy take that'll be dispelled by half an hour's concerted use of the thing you're talking about

short of massive technological regression, there's literally never going to be a situation where the use of what amounts to a second brain with access to all the world's public information is not going to be incredibly marketable

I dare you to try building a project with Cursor or a better cousin and then come back and repeat this comment

>What's more likely: that everyone who's angry is wrong, or that you're misunderstanding why they're upset?

your patronising tone aside, GP didn't say everyone was wrong, did he? if he didn't, which he didn't, then it's a completely useless and fallacious rhetorical. what he actually said was that it's very common. and, factually, it is. I can't count the number of these type of instagram comments I've seen on obviously real videos. most people have next to no understanding of AI and its limitations and typical features, and "surprising visual occurrence in video" or "article with correct grammar and punctuation" are enough for them to think they've figured something out

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by walrusted »

jrjfjgkrj wrote: post #47
swyx wrote: post #4

somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head (wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher s…

every human generation built upon the slop of the previous one but we appreciated that, we called it "standing on the shoulders of giants"

the only structure you can build with slop is a burial mound

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by retsibsi »

littlestymaar wrote: post #40
permo-w wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

surely that would be eternal November then

No, being released on Nov 30th means November was still before the slop era.

In the end the analogy doesn't really work, because 'eternal September' referred to what used to be a regular, temporary thing (an influx of noobs disrupting the online culture, before eventually leaving or assimilating) becoming the new normal. 'Eternal {month associated with ChatGPT}' doesn't fit because LLM-generated content was never a periodic phenomenon.
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