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In which case, why not just have humans write the text we need instead of firing all our writers in the first place?

simmerup 2y ago
Ease of use? Like why pay more for AWS when you can host things locallly. People just can't be bothered with the admin
iaaan 2y ago
If corporations can simply augment some generated text with the cheapest human labor available, without audiences noticing or caring so much that it affects their bottom line, they will do so. Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more.
- dleeftink 2y ago
  > Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more But LLMs are not only used in corporate settings. Cutting the bottom line in medical professions, case law, academic journals, etc. may seem enticing, but their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of the loss of specialist diagnoses, case work and peer/lit reviews.
  - iaaan 2y ago
    Agreed, their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of those losses, but they will still absolutely try, and your average person has very little (if any) control over this.
    - Bluestein 2y ago
      (Which is very very scary - at the very least: Law, medicine ... ... how many (and to what extent) are today's students/trainees and future practicing pros already passing classes that they would have otherwise failed, undetected -for example- and undermining future professional services which we will all avail ourselves of?
xattt 2y ago
R/AskReddit has prompt posts that seem to tap into people’s opinions about current events and how people feel about various things. My best guess is that it’s LLM trainers tapping into the oblivious masses.
- sgarland 2y ago
  Even before the rise of LLMs, that sub was heavily used to create listicles (“10 worst things about foo”).
- afavour 2y ago
  And of course those LLM trainers have no clue how many of the responses come from AI-generated bots. Ouroborus of chat.
mcmcmc 2y ago
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Ease of use? Like why pay more for AWS when you can host things locallly. People just can't be bothered with the admin

If corporations can simply augment some generated text with the cheapest human labor available, without audiences noticing or caring so much that it affects their bottom line, they will do so. Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more.

dleeftink 2y ago
> Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more But LLMs are not only used in corporate settings. Cutting the bottom line in medical professions, case law, academic journals, etc. may seem enticing, but their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of the loss of specialist diagnoses, case work and peer/lit reviews.
- iaaan 2y ago
  Agreed, their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of those losses, but they will still absolutely try, and your average person has very little (if any) control over this.
  - Bluestein 2y ago
    (Which is very very scary - at the very least: Law, medicine ... ... how many (and to what extent) are today's students/trainees and future practicing pros already passing classes that they would have otherwise failed, undetected -for example- and undermining future professional services which we will all avail ourselves of?

xattt 2y ago

R/AskReddit has prompt posts that seem to tap into people’s opinions about current events and how people feel about various things. My best guess is that it’s LLM trainers tapping into the oblivious masses.

sgarland 2y ago
Even before the rise of LLMs, that sub was heavily used to create listicles (“10 worst things about foo”).
afavour 2y ago
And of course those LLM trainers have no clue how many of the responses come from AI-generated bots. Ouroborus of chat.

mcmcmc 2y ago

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