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What is it about text generation that makes us so credulous about its relationship to reality in a way that we aren't with other generative tech? I assume that
by lsy 3y ago
What is it about text generation that makes us so credulous about its relationship to reality in a way that we aren't with other generative tech? I assume that a lawyer would implicitly understand that they can't, for example, ask MidJourney to generate a photo of a certain crime's perpetrator and then submit that as evidence in court. The phenomena of what Bard or GPT-4 does with text is almost exactly analogous to what MidJourney does with pixels insofar as its relation to reality, and yet when it comes to text, even the creators of a generated work don't understand it's not real.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoA lazy person can't pretend that a camera existed at a point in the past taking the picture that an AI is showing them. But there's nothing stopping them from pretending that any given text output is truth.