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highplainsdem

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4. More harmful than interesting, and it was perfectly foreseeable. This has always been badly flawed
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 10:29 AM
Sep 19

tech that

1) should never have been developed in the first place because of the vast theft of intellectual property to train the genAI models, and

2) should never have been released to the public and hyped as artificial intelligence because of the unsolvable inaccuracy of LLMs.

On top of which it's bad for the environment - our physical environment, not just our information ecosystem: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127176439 .

The AI Event Horizon usonian Sep 19 #1
"Damn near everything is AI-produced?" Very doubtful. Take a deep breath and get a grip. Martin68 Sep 19 #3
Interesting side effect/unforeseen consequences of AI. Martin68 Sep 19 #2
More harmful than interesting, and it was perfectly foreseeable. This has always been badly flawed highplainsdem Sep 19 #4
This article has nothing to do with either stolen intellectual property or inaccuracy. You have an axe to grind, but it Martin68 Sep 19 #5
The article, which I posted, is about the internet's pollution by AI slop "generated by large language models, written highplainsdem Sep 19 #7
Good point. The authors of the article are grinding the same axe you are. But you're missing the point. The research was Martin68 Sep 19 #14
Hardly unforeseen. The AI enthusiasts dismiss this as the "dead internet" conspiracy theory. Eugene Sep 19 #10
I believe it. My college professor friends all gripe about AI written papers. LisaM Sep 19 #6
GenAI has been terrible for teachers' morale. highplainsdem Sep 19 #8
There's a whole new crop of professors who have gone all "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI" Prairie Gates Sep 19 #9
And when they are caught, they argue and their parents back them up. LisaM Sep 19 #12
Better to spend the time devising new activities for "participation equity" Prairie Gates Sep 19 #13
My son says they're trying to crack down on AI-generated writing at his community college. He is adamantly LauraInLA Sep 19 #11
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