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It will be interesting if it replaces stackoverflow considering that it probably trained itself on a lot of the questions and answers. On the one hand it's not
by discreteevent 4y ago
It will be interesting if it replaces stackoverflow considering that it probably trained itself on a lot of the questions and answers. On the one hand it's not much different than training on github or how google put translators out of business by using their translations. But it is just a more direct connection that demonstrates how these guys are funneling the wealth generated by other people's work up to themselves. Before stackoverflow the state of questions and answers on the web was really bad and full of noise. They took a risk and put a lot of effort and engineering knowledge into building it.
What really annoys me is that it will probably further train itself on this text I'm writing now. I am writing it in the spirit of exchange with other similar people. Not in the spirit of some mechanical turk worker for OpenAI.
- burkaman 4y agoI agree and I think this is similar to some people's very legitimate objections to Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. When people put artwork up on the internet they were expecting a handful of human beings to draw some enjoyment and maybe inspiration from it. They were not expecting billions of identical robots to ingest it in a nanosecond and remember and build off of it for eternity. Scale matters, and robot and human inspiration are not ethically equivalent even if you think they are mechanically equivalent.