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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

(Another post so soon? Another post so soon.)

"Gen AI competes with its training data, exhibit 1,764":

exhibit 1764

Also got a quick sidenote, which spawned from seeing this:

This is pure gut feeling, but I suspect that "AI training" has become synonymous with "art theft/copyright infringement" in the public consciousness.

Between AI bros publicly scraping against people's wishes (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C), the large-scale theft of data which went to produce these LLMs' datasets, and the general perception that working in AI means you support theft (Exhibit A, Exhibit B), I wouldn't blame Joe Public for treating AI as inherently infringing.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/1841848120897912967#m

jfc

Edit: replaced screenshot of tweet + description with link to tweet

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

jesus christ, as if "podcasts" consisting of random idiots regurgitating wikipedia weren't bad enough as it is

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

aaaaaaaah

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

it's like he's purposefully trying to think as little as possible

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

thinking needs many strawberry reasoning tokens! maybe these grifters just aren't as rich as they portray

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

can't tell if serious

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

…..pwahahahaha

“if only you know” in the purest form I’ve seen all week

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