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I know I keep hammering on Bing Chat lately and I feel like a shill, but: it's really, really good. Bing already handled the stuff Google is still good at well
by Kye 4y ago
I know I keep hammering on Bing Chat lately and I feel like a shill, but: it's really, really good. Bing already handled the stuff Google is still good at well enough, and now it's better at the stuff Google used to be good at.
Two Goliath companies forced to compete in the blue ocean of practical LLMs. It's going to be a wild ride of innovation and cool new stuff. When was the last time Google faced real competition? This is it. This is the next era of tech.
Hopefully someone decides to compete on consent, credit, and compensation for the people whose work these models depend on. Google's bargain was: We index your stuff to make it searchable, and we run ads on it while sending traffic to you.
The LLM chat-based search bargain is similar: we scoop up your work and help you make more. The glitch is that LLMs have the potential to negate the you and your and take over, like Google has with that bargain in trying to answer all queries on-search instead of sending traffic.
Someone has to solve the problem of people needing to work for compensation to survive. I really can take or leave copyright and IP in general. It exists to get people paid for creating stuff we enjoy and benefit from as a society.
I would happily hand it all over to these machines to help me come up with new stuff if I weren't struggling to survive when my only real skills are at risk of being turned into a mush of data that people will acclimate to and forget they ever cared about craft or the people who used to make it.
Wouldn't it be wild if our discussions about this became input for the models, and those models came up with some good solutions?