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[A bit out of scope] I suspect that in pretty short time people will stop reading any texts from the Web. And indeed, human got a good skill to skip ad blocks

[A bit out of scope] I suspect that in pretty short time people will stop reading any texts from the Web. And indeed, human got a good skill to skip ad blocks on pages. Next will be any texts on web pages: why to bother reading stuff that AI throws on us?

golergka 4y ago
Why? Texts generated by AI are pretty useful. I read ChatGPT answers to my questions literally all the time.
- alangibson 4y ago
  How sure are you it's not lying to you? I asked ChatGPT to write a description of common plasma cutter table features, and it didn't know the difference between initial height sensing and torch height control. I closed the browser tab and haven't gone back since.
  - wetmore 4y ago
    In many contexts it's easy to verify what ChatGPT tells you. There are ways to use ChatGPT as a tool that do not require it to always be right for it to be useful. For example, the other day I asked it something about the Flask codebase, and it found the relevant part of the codebase immediately. When I asked it about the behavior of the code, it wasn't always correct, but it still showed me the relevant code so I could read it way faster than I would have found it myself. Initially my impression of ChatGPT was the same as yours - I asked it some questions in a specialized domain I know well, and when it was wrong I decided ChatGPT is useless. But after enough people told me they find it useful, I took another look and tried finding more applications. And since then I've been impressed by what it can do.
    - alangibson 4y ago
      I can definitely see it being good for assisted learning. Quickly groking codebases seems to be one of the most popular uses.
  - wouldbecouldbe 4y ago
    I just used it to write some tests, then I implemented and it failed. It then continued to explain what my setup was missing. Regarding coding v4 is become pretty accurate. And if it makes a mistake it's able to explain what went wrong. Regarding certain medical conditions I've asked to list the studies and explain them, it does that pretty well. But just as talking with a human, or with googling info on a website, or with Stackoverflow, Im always assuming I need to double check it.
- Shorel 4y ago
  True that. It is replacing or complimenting some of my teachers right now.
spaceman_2020 4y ago
How soon do you think we'll have AI coming up with its own unique writing style? When do we get AI Hunter Thompson?
LoveMortuus 4y ago
Or, what I believe to be a more plausible future, you just read, watch and listen to content from sources that you consider worthy of your time. Example: videos uploaded in the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips have a high probability of being made by the Linus Tech Tips people and not just being completely AI generated, unless of course if that made the videos better, but I still think that the videos would be curated by the Linus Tech Tips team.
whatch 4y ago
I was afraid of that too. But then I remembered that I had already stopped reading some common Google search results because they seemed too low effort for a very long time. And they often looked like they were generated, not written. Just three examples from different fields: Quora, CNN, and CNET. But the list is much longer. In non-English parts of the Internet, there is also poorly auto-translated content from websites like Stack Overflow, which is weirdly high in the Google results. Fortunately, I found extensions to block these websites in Google search. So for me, and I believe for many people, it has already happened. On the other hand, I enjoy reading articles from Simon Willison and Adam Johnson. And even though now we have very powerful chatbot services that can explain anything to you or effectively teach you some skill, I will most likely continue to read the content that they put on their blogs or elsewhere. Reputation did matter, and it will matter even more in the future. I believe people will continue to read other people's texts. At least I will.
senko 4y ago
Why bother reading stuff that some underpaid overworked copywriter throws at us at the behest of a growth hacker, with the sole purpose to get us engaged? I, for one, would rather read an insightful piece by an author who has been helped by an AI than a soulless product of a content farm.
sebzim4500 4y ago
What makes you think the texts that aren't from the web are any less likely to be written by AI?

golergka 4y ago

Why? Texts generated by AI are pretty useful. I read ChatGPT answers to my questions literally all the time.

alangibson 4y ago
How sure are you it's not lying to you? I asked ChatGPT to write a description of common plasma cutter table features, and it didn't know the difference between initial height sensing and torch height control. I closed the browser tab and haven't gone back since.
- wetmore 4y ago
  In many contexts it's easy to verify what ChatGPT tells you. There are ways to use ChatGPT as a tool that do not require it to always be right for it to be useful. For example, the other day I asked it something about the Flask codebase, and it found the relevant part of the codebase immediately. When I asked it about the behavior of the code, it wasn't always correct, but it still showed me the relevant code so I could read it way faster than I would have found it myself. Initially my impression of ChatGPT was the same as yours - I asked it some questions in a specialized domain I know well, and when it was wrong I decided ChatGPT is useless. But after enough people told me they find it useful, I took another look and tried finding more applications. And since then I've been impressed by what it can do.
  - alangibson 4y ago
    I can definitely see it being good for assisted learning. Quickly groking codebases seems to be one of the most popular uses.
- wouldbecouldbe 4y ago
  I just used it to write some tests, then I implemented and it failed. It then continued to explain what my setup was missing. Regarding coding v4 is become pretty accurate. And if it makes a mistake it's able to explain what went wrong. Regarding certain medical conditions I've asked to list the studies and explain them, it does that pretty well. But just as talking with a human, or with googling info on a website, or with Stackoverflow, Im always assuming I need to double check it.
Shorel 4y ago
True that. It is replacing or complimenting some of my teachers right now.

spaceman_2020 4y ago

How soon do you think we'll have AI coming up with its own unique writing style? When do we get AI Hunter Thompson?

LoveMortuus 4y ago

Or, what I believe to be a more plausible future, you just read, watch and listen to content from sources that you consider worthy of your time. Example: videos uploaded in the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips have a high probability of being made by the Linus Tech Tips people and not just being completely AI generated, unless of course if that made the videos better, but I still think that the videos would be curated by the Linus Tech Tips team.

whatch 4y ago

I was afraid of that too. But then I remembered that I had already stopped reading some common Google search results because they seemed too low effort for a very long time. And they often looked like they were generated, not written. Just three examples from different fields: Quora, CNN, and CNET. But the list is much longer. In non-English parts of the Internet, there is also poorly auto-translated content from websites like Stack Overflow, which is weirdly high in the Google results. Fortunately, I found extensions to block these websites in Google search. So for me, and I believe for many people, it has already happened. On the other hand, I enjoy reading articles from Simon Willison and Adam Johnson. And even though now we have very powerful chatbot services that can explain anything to you or effectively teach you some skill, I will most likely continue to read the content that they put on their blogs or elsewhere. Reputation did matter, and it will matter even more in the future. I believe people will continue to read other people's texts. At least I will.

senko 4y ago

Why bother reading stuff that some underpaid overworked copywriter throws at us at the behest of a growth hacker, with the sole purpose to get us engaged? I, for one, would rather read an insightful piece by an author who has been helped by an AI than a soulless product of a content farm.

sebzim4500 4y ago

What makes you think the texts that aren't from the web are any less likely to be written by AI?