Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe

Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by thesz on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:47PM (#42776730)

  > trained the model on synthetic data

You get knowledge collapse [1] this way.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03502

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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by ben_w on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:14AM (#42779746)

You can get knowledge collapse.

But based on how often people were already doing this with buggy human-written software[0][1] — and even though there are counter-examples (e.g. learning Go from self-play based only on the rules) — IMO most people don't think about this in the right way and will therefore treat these things as magical oracles when they shouldn't.

No silver bullets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no

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