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I’d like to highlight the last two paragraphs with two different people quoted: “Google also didn’t say whether it has or is formulating a policy to filter out

I’d like to highlight the last two paragraphs with two different people quoted: “Google also didn’t say whether it has or is formulating a policy to filter out AI-generated books from Google Books, and it did not remove any of the AI-generated books I’ve flagged to the company. “We continually work to adapt our systems and policies to ensure users find helpful and relevant books within the Google Books corpus,” the Google spokesperson said. ““It strikes me as another instance of AI-generated text becoming an ouroboros, where AI-generated content will be ingested into Google Books, then Google using the content to train new models,” Hanna said. “I'm sure they will say they have a ‘quality filter’ but I'm sure the details of such won't be described anywhere publicly.”” The spokesperson sounds like AI, while the other person does not. An interesting parallel.

CoastalCoder 3y ago
TIL the word "ouroboros". Thanks!
- froh 3y ago
  had to look it up too... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros > The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
digging 3y ago
> The spokesperson sounds like AI, That's been generally true for a long time, though. Actually I might say LLMs have a tone similar to a PR rep.
- abeppu 3y ago
  I think it's actually for approximately the same reasons: - the spokesperson has learned a specific tone and register - the spokesperson is almost certainly not actually involved in adapting systems and policies to do anything, and for this reason doesn't have an grounded understanding of what they're talking about
summerlight 3y ago
This spokeperson looks pity... They doesn't have any power to influence or even represent the policy but has to react promptly. I guess they don't even know whether this issue is under the radar of decision makers? Perhaps that's the reason why they had to speak like AI.

CoastalCoder 3y ago

TIL the word "ouroboros". Thanks!

froh 3y ago
had to look it up too... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros > The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.

digging 3y ago

> The spokesperson sounds like AI, That's been generally true for a long time, though. Actually I might say LLMs have a tone similar to a PR rep.

abeppu 3y ago
I think it's actually for approximately the same reasons: - the spokesperson has learned a specific tone and register - the spokesperson is almost certainly not actually involved in adapting systems and policies to do anything, and for this reason doesn't have an grounded understanding of what they're talking about

summerlight 3y ago

This spokeperson looks pity... They doesn't have any power to influence or even represent the policy but has to react promptly. I guess they don't even know whether this issue is under the radar of decision makers? Perhaps that's the reason why they had to speak like AI.