Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods?

Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by bradgessler on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:43AM (#36767884)

What happens after LLMs kill off SO and then seek more updated training data?

It seems like these “deaths” are either temporary or something else will pop-up that continuously improves and trains an LLMs with proprietary data.

There’s def a shift in the social contract of the internet. We’re shifting from “publish a few things you know a lot bit in exchange to read stuff other smart people have shared” to “solve a problem with an LLM and train it in a manner that can be helpful to others”

What’s unclear is how the middle of that will be monetized. Search engines figured out how to do it for the “publish and share” paradigm and made a boatload of money off of it after paying for the massive infrastructure required to index everything. How will LLMs do it without killing the data that trains it?

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by FeepingCreature on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:53AM (#36768361)

Would be cool to have projects write documentation in a form that's annotated for LLMs, ie. premarked topic breaks.

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by justinclift on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:05AM (#36768455)

> have projects write documentation ...

I kind of expect those projects would want ChatGPT to write the documentation. ;)

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by spacebanana7 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:17AM (#36768965)

I think open source might benefit a lot from being so easy for LLMs to provide answers for. Hopefully they’ll be able to reason straight from the source code.

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by FeepingCreature on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:20AM (#36810272)

I've had GPT3 give me the wrong answers to questions. Then I google the topic, find the documentation and go "hm, yeah, I can see how it would think that." For instance, ask it what `set +o` does in Bash, then check the online docs.

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by cwkoss on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:54AM (#36768368)

> “publish a few things you know a lot bit in exchange to read stuff other smart people have shared

I feel like this hasn't been the majority of internet users experience for ~20 years

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by izacus on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:25AM (#36771100)

It was never the experience of "majority". Majority doesn't create.

It was, nevertheless, internet.

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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? by mlboss on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:13PM (#36774843)

With programming atleast there can a validation step at LLM based system can deploy. Check if the suggested changes work before spitting out the answer.

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