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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by waihtis on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:23AM (#37045211)
Well, currently the top LLM fails at repeatedly generating a stable set of pretty simple regexes for me, so where pretty far from a full-blown LLM dystopia at this point.
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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by mavhc on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:49AM (#37045383)
The question is does the rapid progress in LLMs continue over the next few years, or do we reach another local maximum. Is "currently" going to improve rapidly?
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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by waihtis on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:13AM (#37045551)
as I understand we're approaching local maximum with LLMs and that is what I base the previous comment on, but fully layman and no insight into deeper layers of LLM R&D
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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by sznio on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:43AM (#37045784)
LLMs are too dumb to be useful, but smart enough to be destructive.

You don't need to be able to generate correct regexes to create a blogspam article about regexes that will go to the top of the search results.

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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by Peritract on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:31AM (#37046108)
> LLMs are too dumb to be useful, but smart enough to be destructive.

I think this puts the blame in the wrong place; LLMs are too dumb to be useful, but it's the users who are too dumb to realise that, or too unethical to care.

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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by uoaei on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:16AM (#37046401)
It's also the creators, hosters, and startup founders who are overselling its capabilities.
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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by Peritract on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:47AM (#37046609)
I was lumping them in with 'users'; I don't think the evangelists are any less credulous than their marks.
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Re:AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and G... by waihtis on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:23AM (#37046052)
search is dying anyway and this will just accelerate that trend.
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