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LLMs can’t create true statements about events not described in their training data, but that’s no reason to assume that they won’t be increasingly prominent on
by MereInterest 3y ago
LLMs can’t create true statements about events not described in their training data, but that’s no reason to assume that they won’t be increasingly prominent on the internet. Advertisement views pay the same whether they are next to true information or merely true-sounding information.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThat’s not actually true, high quality news sites make better returns on views and click throughs hence can charge more for advertising. What makes them high quality is both the quality of writing, which is commoditized by LLM, but also the quality of the fact finding and truthfulness. LLM creators don’t have to train their models with known cesspools of SEO garbage pumped out to dupe search engine users whether by humans or machine. Just because a news paper is entirely written by an editorially controlled LLM fed story outlines by reporters doesn’t make the news any less quality than one artisanally crafted by human writers - the facts are what matter, not that the prose was constructed by a writer. In that case, the news as written by the LLM encode facts provided by a human, and would make high quality material for another LLM. I would anticipate there will be LLM who specialize in high quality source material, hence I don’t think an internet of material written by LLM with human guidance would produce any worse LLM than the ones made today.