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Humans are older as confident nonsense generators. Incompetence was around before we had machines that automate it. Of course some people will die due to machin
by lolc 3y ago
Humans are older as confident nonsense generators. Incompetence was around before we had machines that automate it. Of course some people will die due to machine recommendations, but I've yet to see an argument why this will be worse than deaths from overconfident humans.
- mola 3y agoThe whole premise of our industry is scale and the difference it makes. So why is it so hard to fathom that the scale this tech is enabling is making a qualitive difference and not only a quantitive one?
- lolc 3y agoWe place responsibility with the humans that employ the generators. And we've always needed curators. If we see a section of the web drowning in nonsense that just means that that part will become irrelevant. If Google or Facebook can't find a way to curate, they will be forgotten and only revered by some people as the good old times. We can deplore it, but must not delude ourselves into thinking that the old web didn't have a nonsense problem. You had sites that would go unlinked because the creators were crazy. At first the thing that curbed influx of nonsense somewhat is barriers to entry such as cost and technical competence. Then the curation was reputation based with Google's pagerank as an example. Now we will find new ways. And it hurts. It hurts like spam hurts email.
- nurbl 3y agoThis argument could also be used to dismiss the whole "AI" industry. After all, humans have been able to answer questions and write essays for a long time! Of course the problem lies exactly in the ability to automate incompetence.