• yesman@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    But with OpenAI, [Sam Altman] told me, “there’s something real happening here”.

    This sentience strikes me because it’s a tacit admission that AI as it stands is way less valuable than people like Altman promised it would be. But trust me bro.

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      5 days ago

      It also jumped out at me too cause it was literally the opposite of the most true thing about AI.

      Sure, you can argue that it helps and that improves productivity in some niche use cases, but by definition, there isn’t anything real there. It’s an empty husk that has been contorted to echo user prompts based on past Q&A.

      It’s literally like calling a foot print something real cause you can reconstruct some of the foot.

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    5 days ago

    So far as I can tell they’ve stolen everyone’s content and use it to pretend AI “knows” everything, or anything.

    If that’s never addressed, and they will make it almost impossible to do that, AI will survive in several forms.

    One outcome will be a sea-level-rise in superfluous text that’s all coming from the same point-of-view and is pretty bland.

    You know how people don’t like to read now? Imagine every report, every article, every pullquote being three times longer than it needs to be and basically saying the same thing over and over.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      One outcome will be a sea-level-rise in superfluous text that’s all coming from the same point-of-view and is pretty bland.

      Searching the Internet for a banana bread recipe allows us to experience this full distopia, today.

      The web used to be full of recipes. Now most of the web is copies of the same mediocre recipe wrapped in meaningless filler text and ads.

      It feels like the village at the end of “A wrinkle in time”.