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‘AI’ in its current state requires vast amounts of data. It will only understand (to the degree that such systems do) new subjects after thousands of books have
by xanderlewis 3y ago
‘AI’ in its current state requires vast amounts of data. It will only understand (to the degree that such systems do) new subjects after thousands of books have been written on them. So I don’t see how the original sources are going to completely ‘taper off’. Most people might not look at them once a subject has matured to the point at which its form can reasonably by replicated and interpolated by machine learning models, but by that point it’s old knowledge anyway.
- WalterBright 3y agoI've tried to debate with college-educated people who would cite TikTok videos as their sources. The shallowness of their source material is only exceeded by their certainty of rectitude.
- eynsham 3y agoThis is partly because access to university education has widened tremendously. Modern academic research is not really TikTok-based.
- vacuity 3y agoI think the implication isn't that it's an aspect of academia but just that college graduates of all people should know to do better.
- WalterBright 3y agoYup. A college educated person should know better than to cite TikTok as their authoritative source.
- jazzyjackson 3y agopoint is there will be no market for books so there's no reason to write them unless the AI companies are going to start commissioning manuscripts from experts, but they feel entitled not to pay for ingested material this is a major impediment to LLM corps' "fair use" claim as their derivative work takes market share from the source material