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Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by ChickeNES on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:25AM (#49865334)
If a machine can do the same work for nearly free, "but the existing people want to keep getting paid" is not an argument for copyright.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by techpression on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:23AM (#49865680)
It can’t, it needs hundreds of thousands (if not multiple millions) of human hours spent making content for it.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by ChickeNES on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:13AM (#49866818)
Training data? Luckily we have all of human history and culture to digitize to solve that problem.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by throwaway173738 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:08AM (#49866384)
Which is fine if you like human culture to never change for the next ten thousand years. LLMs can only ever interpolate or extrapolate things they’ve already been trained on.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by ChickeNES on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:13AM (#49866810)
I don’t accept the premise, it’s hard to take anyone seriously who is parroting the “stochastic parrot” argument in 02026.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by throwaway173738 on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:10AM (#49942015)
Your assertion that we’ll somehow get brand new human culture from something that isn’t human might be a little shaky too.