200fifty

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[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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Through an algorithm that analyzes troves of student information from multiple sources, the chatbot was designed to offer tailored responses to questions like “what grade does my child have in math?”

Okay, I'm not a big-brain edtech integration admin, but I seem to recall that like fifteen years ago we had a website that my parents could check to see my grade in math. I feel like this was already a solved problem honestly.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

Oh my god, I can't stop laughing out loud at "women evolved small heads because they kept falling over and hitting their big heads on rocks," based on the fact that his sister hit her head when she was younger. What's his explanation for why men didn't do this then?? Absolutely next-level moon logic I love it so much

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Before the big AI boom, I actually did a project where I used inferkit to generate text for the comedy factor because the unhinged nightmare garbage it spit out was extremely entertaining. I just can't imagine using chat gpt in the same way, it's so boring

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

posts you can hear

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

ngl his stuff always felt a bit cynical to me, in that it seemed to exist more to say "look, video games can have a deep message!" than it did to just have such a message in the first place. Like it existed more to gesture at the concept of meaningfulness rather than to be meaningful itself.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it

Ew... stay away from my content, you creep!

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

If you think of LLMs as being akin to lossy text compression of a set of text, where the compression artifacts happen to also result in grammatical-looking sentences, the question you eventually end up asking is "why is the compression lossy? What if we had the same thing but it returned text from its database without chewing it up first?" and then you realize that you've come full circle and reinvented search engines

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

unironically saying "the sharing economy" in the year of our lord 2024 is... certainly a choice

also

God knows we old-timers tried to be cynical about ChatGPT, pedantically insisting that AI was actually just machine learning and that Altman’s new toy was nothing but cheap mimicry. But the rest of the world knew better

idk dude I've talked to the rest of the world about this and most of them actually seem to dislike this technology, it seems like maybe you didn't actually try very hard to be cynical

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, if this guy's quite confident, then I'm sure it'll all pan out in the end. How hard could symbolic reasoning be, really? Incidentally, I've been in a coma since 1970

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

The copyright clause in the US constitution (1789) also frames it in terms of granting rights to authors to "promote the progress of ... useful arts". Strictly speaking author protection is not the origin of copyright but also I was snarkily responding to a person who was arguing in favor of AI-training-as-fair-use and implying copyright was 120 years old, not trying to do a detailed explication of the origins of copyright law

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm sorry for my imprecise wording, I was feeling flippant and I know what I said isn't totally accurate. not a big history person here honestly. I'll try and stick to joke-commenting next time. but also can you just say what you mean instead of darkly hinting.

iirc even though the origin of copyright is not really specifically about author protection, part of the broad-strokes motivation for its existence involved "we need to keep production of new works viable in a world where new copies can be easily produced and undercut the original," which was what I was trying to get at. maybe they picked a bad way to do that idk I'm not here to make excuses for the decisions of 16th-century monarchs

also again I'm not a copyright fan/defender. in particular copyright as currently constituted massively and obviously sucks. I just don't think copyright-in-the-abstract is like the Greatest Moral Evil either, bc I'm not a libertarian. sorry ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

heck yeah I love ~~Physics Jenny Nicholson~~ Angela Collier

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