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Google is vague about this, but the easiest solution to protect the quality of the ngram viewer is simply to only use books from known, non-vanity publishers.
by TillE 3y ago
Google is vague about this, but the easiest solution to protect the quality of the ngram viewer is simply to only use books from known, non-vanity publishers.
- jgalt212 3y agoOh, so the gatekeepers serve a purpose.
- verdverm 3y agoCuration serves a purpose, Google is one, there are more We want competition and options in this space. It's one of the things I really like about Bluesky, which I only discovered recently. They enable competition and options for all core components of social media
- yoyohello13 3y agoGatekeeping as a term has lost its meaning. These days it’s used to refer to any kind of quality control.
- pquki4 3y agoSuppose this is the way we want to go (many people probably won't agree for good reasons), Google is not going to put in the effort to identify reputable publishers. Honestly I am a bit surprised that Google Books is still around -- does it bring a lot of revenue? Why hasn't Google got bored with it by now?
- danielbln 3y agoMy guess: it's used as a high quality source of training data (well, mostly anyways) since papers like Textbooks Is All You Need showed that that can be a treasure troth. Offering this as a "public service" may just be a smokescreen for regulators.
- empath-nirvana 3y agoEveryone jumping into AI, but there's going to be a business opportunity for curated sources of information with proof that actual human beings created it.
- rchaud 3y agoWe need to stop looking at every negative externality caused by GenAI as a "business opportunity". Sweeping the streets of confetti and trash after New Year's Eve is not a lucrative job.
- mostlysimilar 3y agoThe negative externalities are here regardless. We just spent the last two decades letting big tech get away with whatever they want, and they've gobbled up the internet and now hold all of the cards. The ocean of AI sludge getting shat all over us is only going to accelerate and for the majority of people will be the norm, there'll be no competition on cost or ease of access. Our best hope is to create islands of by-humans for-humans media, software, communities, etc. They'll be "premium" in the sense that they'll more expensive and more exclusive, but for the people who are opposed to the fuzzy auto-completing away of our humanity it'll be worth it. I do think that subcultures will develop with human-only values that aren't built around businesses, and the two will have a lot of interplay.
- cess11 3y agoIt's more akin to filtering or stopping email spam, which can be somewhat lucrative.
- munificent 3y agoThe business opportunity created for prosthetic manufacturers is not a sufficient justification for the mass manufacturing and deployment of landmines.
- everybodyknows 3y agoHow can this be proved? Any human author can copy/paste snippets out of ChatGPT.