I miss the days when you could just do a thing and as long as you made more money than you spent, just keep doing it. Now the line must always go up, no matter what. And if your business model isn't profitable enough they'll just shut down 200 years of tradition without a second thought.
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
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Surely companies have always adapted and changed products. They're not exactly able to make much of encyclopedias anymore when they're main competitor is free to use and has volunteers writing and editing it.
I think that profit ship sailed for EB long ago.
More general-purpose models like ChatGPT suffer from hallucinations because they have hoovered up the entire internet, including all the junk and misinformation.
Incorrect. ChatGPT hallucinates because that’s how LLMs work. Hoovering up misinformation is a separate problem.
A company in the space of selling educational books that has seen its fortunes go the opposite direction is Chegg. The company has seen its stock price plummet almost in lock-step with the rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, as students canceled their subscriptions to its online knowledge platform.
Incorrect. Chegg is a cheating platform. It is the opposite of a knowledge platform.
Why is Gizmodo paying people to write articles who apparently know pretty much nothing about the subject they are writing about?
Because they know their audience.
Having bad information in your dataset surely has to increase the odds of hallucinations though.
that's not completely fair ; they could have done their research (using ai)
I read some of the author’s other articles. They have a habit of regurgitating highly suspect claims from press releases or company self-descriptions as if they were reality.
OpenAI is confident in o3, and offers impressive benchmarks—it says that in a Codeforcing testing, which measures coding ability, o3 got a score of 2727. For context, a score of 2400 would put an engineer in the 99th percentile of programmers. It gets a score of 96.7% on the 2024 American Invitational Mathematics Exam, missing just one question.
There’s also the article which claims that AI puts the entire power grid at risk, and then when you read the article, you learn that in order for that to be true, you need to lump AI in with crypto mining, other datacenter expansion, electric cars, and climate control for people’s homes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all in on artificial intelligence, and may soon go public at a valuation of nearly $1 billion
All in on enshittification, like everyone else.
Wikipedia is just like valve lol
do literally nothing and your opponents will kill themselves