My experience trying to write human-sounding articles using Claude AI

Re:My experience trying to write human-sounding articles usi... by TapWaterBandit on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:48PM (#38385621)

I think this is one of the upsides of the chaos at OpenAI recently. It has really shined a light on how many of the people most fervently obsessed with "safe-AI" really aren't clearheaded or rational thinkers and are prone to making many disastrous and ill-advised decisions as anyone else. This is good because there is an unfortunate human tick where pessimism/cynicism is equated with wisdom while optimism is equated with naivety.

But when the pessimists and cynics show so clearly on such a large scale that they aren't uniformly wise or competent, it will allow more levelheaded perspectives towards LLMs and a more general cautious optimism be the guiding philosophy around developing these tools.

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Re:My experience trying to write human-sounding articles usi... by voitvoder on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:45AM (#38391426)

It is a great thought but I just don't agree with your conclusion.

Most likely we will learn absolutely nothing from this week and this is just the start of irrational AI doomers doing stupid things that make no sense.

In a few months this past week will feel as dated as talking about the OceanGate implosion and there will be some new AI development for irrational AI doomers to hang their hat on. Doomers are always going to be able to fall back on the idea that this iteration is the bad one and the previous iterations are no longer relevant.

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Re:My experience trying to write human-sounding articles usi... by TapWaterBandit on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:24PM (#38400089)

Possibly but I am more concerned with how doomers are viewed by the public. Doomers gonna doom, but if the public don't take them seriously then they are irrelevant.

If they want to stick to their "the end is nigh!" shtick it doesn't really bother me.

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Re:My experience trying to write human-sounding articles usi... by addicted on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:24PM (#38411167)

There’s very little to learn from the chaos least of all because we don’t even know what actually happened.

It’s a bit ridiculous to say one should change their entire worldview about a potentially world changing technology based on innuendo and rumors.

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