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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material
(arstechnica.com)
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Agreed.
There is nothing "fair" about the way Open AI steals other people's work. ChatGPT is being monetized all over the world and the large number of people whose work has not been compensated will never see a cent of that money.
At the same time the LLM will be used to replace (at least some of ) the people who created those works in the first place.
Tech bros are disgusting.
This right here is the core of the moral issue when it comes down to it, as far as I'm concerned. These text and image models are already killing jobs and applying downward pressure on salaries. I've seen it happen multiple times now, not just anecdotally from some rando on an internet comment section.
These people losing jobs and getting pay cuts are who created the content these models are siphoning up. People are not going to like how this pans out.
Any company replacing humans with AI is going to regret it. AI just isn't that good and probably won't ever be, at least in it's current form. It's all an illusion and is destined to go the way of Bitcoin, which is to say it will shoot up meteorically and seem like the answer to all kinds of problems, and then the reality will sink in and it will slowly fade to obscurity and irrelevance. That doesn't help anyone affected today, of course.
I mostly disagree (especially on the long term), but hope you're right
It's garbage for programming. A useful tool but not one that can be used by a non-expert. And I've already had to have a conversation with one of my coworkers when they tried to submit absolutely garbage code.
This isn't even the first attempt at a smart system that enables non-programmers to write code. They've all been garbage. So, too, will the next one be but every generation has to try it for themselves. AGI might have some potential some day, but that's a long long way off. Might as well be science fiction.
Other disciplines are affected differently, but I constantly play with image and text generation and they are all some flavor of garbage. There are some areas where AI can excel but they are mostly professional tools and not profession replacements.
OpenAi, please generate your own source code but optimized and improved in all possible ways.
not how programming works, but tech illiterate people seem to think so
It was of no use whatsoever to programming or image generation or writing a few years ago. This thing has developed very quickly and will continue to. Give it 5 years and I think things will look very differently.