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We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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Re: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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Post by WalterSear »

> If it produces plausible articles or computer code it means the inevitable hallucinations are becoming harder to spot.

How functional does the code have to be before it's no longer a hallucination?

What if we are all not much more than only drawing "on the (admittedly vast) proportion of [our experiences] ingested at training time?

Re: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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Post by labrador »

I don't get the point of this article. ChatGPT and it's ilk are not going away. They are here, now, and our friends and families will start using them very soon. I have a contrarian view from this article that ChatGPT is actually good for the mainstream audience because it will teach them to think about how trust worthy the information is coming from a machine. Most people will understand they have to take what is being said by a machine with a grain of salt (or they will soon). Maybe they'll start applying some of those discernment skills to popular mainstream media. The cat's out of the bag. You can no longer bury it.

Re: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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Post by an_aparallel »

labrador wrote: post #3

I don't get the point of this article. ChatGPT and it's ilk are not going away. They are here, now, and our friends and families will start using them very soon. I have a contrarian view from this article that ChatGPT is actually good for the mainstream audience because it will teach them to think about how trust worthy the information is coming from a machine. Most people will understand they have to take what is be…

Does TikTok, Android/Google,Instagram use make the same friends and family think about privacy and data? From a cursory look at...nearly everyone...i'd say the answer is a resounding no

Re: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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Post by edrxty »

an_aparallel wrote: post #6
labrador wrote: post #3

I don't get the point of this article. ChatGPT and it's ilk are not going away. They are here, now, and our friends and families will start using them very soon. I have a contrarian view from this article that ChatGPT is actually good for the mainstream audience because it will teach them to think about how trust worthy the information is coming from a machine. Most people will understand they have to take what is be…

Does TikTok, Android/Google,Instagram use make the same friends and family think about privacy and data? From a cursory look at...nearly everyone...i'd say the answer is a resounding no

When Facebook came around we all knew it would be a disaster, and it was.

When TikTok/Instagram replaced it, we knew it would be worse, and it was.

Now we have LLMs that vanishingly few people in the greater public actually understand and we know they'll be used for every possible evil imaginable at scale. I'm not optimistic.

See you all in the hellish afterscape.

Re: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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Post by eropple »

WalterSear wrote: post #2

> If it produces plausible articles or computer code it means the inevitable hallucinations are becoming harder to spot. How functional does the code have to be before it's no longer a hallucination? What if we are all not much more than only drawing "on the (admittedly vast) proportion of [our experiences] ingested at training time?

> How functional does the code have to be before it's no longer a hallucination?

At all, preferably. Hallucinating `the_hard_bit()` from a library that doesn't exist isn't particularly useful. (That said, I do use GitHub Copilot, because when it's looking at actually related stuff, that's pretty good. Should we just hand an unbounded search and ingest to ChatGPT? Probably not!)

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