I used to think AI avatars are cool and look so real. Then, as a perfectionist and the advocate for openness I started to think: It's not real - so it's not good. Why should we vote for fakeness? I don't like the direction we are heading with generative AI. I understand the things that helps us do our jobs faster, like erasers, fine tuners. But faces? Nope.
Has anyone put any thought into how to protect your personal blog from the generative ai scrapers? I've already blocked openai in robots.txt, but it seems like more and more small #generativeAI providers are popping up who don't honor these requests?
Maybe a noise filters artists are using with invisible characters but then again how do I make sure Google bot can see my posts? I don't care about humans using my work but I take issue with machines
I was listing something on eBay, and they encourage starting with an existing listing—presumably to increase the amount of detail and decrease the amount of work.
When I selected the same model, I got a default description that was extremely robotic and wordy while just repeating the spec sheet. I thought it sounded LLM-generated; sure enough when I went to edit it, there is a big shiny “write with AI” button.
After a year of hype, the reality is emerging. Cloud clients aren’t buying generative AI tools because they’re expensive, lack accuracy, and it’s not clear what value they provide. Some analysts are already warning of a coming “trough of disillusionment.”
‘The head of Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services has said artificial intelligence will result in “minimal” need for call centres in as soon as a year, with #AI’s rapid advances set to upend a vast industry across Asia and beyond... its pipeline of #generativeAI projects doubled quarter over quarter to be worth $900mn to the end of March.’ https://www.ft.com/content/149681f0-ea71-42b0-b85b-86073354fb73
How the hell do you make it to the year of our Lord 20 ducking 24 and not have heard about how chat gpt can be unreliable. Like, seriously people? Btw, were coming up on the 1 year anniversary of basically the same thing happening in the US Southern district of New York Court https://globalnews.ca/news/10238699/fake-legal-case-bc-ai/
This is an interesting read, there are some scary ideas behind the push for AI in everything, being propagated by the nightmare crew that brought you most of the other terrible stuff to come out of Silicon Valley...
The best way to get away from the hype, is using GPT4 (paid version) for a while yourself, it made me less impressed with the "intelligence" part of AI. At the same time it only makes me more convinced that as a tool generative AI has a lot of potential. It can and will be disruptive but please let's stop all the blabla about AGI (my opinion). There are enough risks and problems to think about and act upon with these tools without AGI discussions. #AI#AGI#GPT4#GenerativeAI
Sometimes I'm called upon to teach a writing intensive capstone class where the main assignment has been a review paper. Given #GenerativeAI, I've been wondering what to do differently. Helping students improve their writing is totally different now...that's all I know.
I found this article:
The role of ChatGPT in scientific communication: writing better scientific review articles
What's interesting (and scary) is the level of content control OpenAI , Google en Microsoft are introducing for their generative AI. Perfectly legal requests and actions are denied because they are risky or not within their norms. The problem is a very small group of people inside those companies is deciding what's allowed for millions of users around the world. Let's hope opensource, uncensored models will also play a role in the future of generative AI. #AI#ethics#generativeAI
Great article by the ABC's Jack Ryan talking about #generativeAI and its #copyright consequences - especially how the existing #law has failed to keep pace with #EmergingTech
My take is that we need to start thinking about #DataTrusts - where #data is kept in trust and released only for the purposes approved by data owners - and which could facilitate payment for that data ...
Teachers should allow students to use #chatGPT to write papers, but then just grade them extra hard. All you're doing is proofreading at that point so the paper better be spotless!