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With all the AI generated content, we will be having AI models using AI generated text on the internet. Blogs from people who are hopefully not using AI to gene

by aprdm 2y ago

With all the AI generated content, we will be having AI models using AI generated text on the internet. Blogs from people who are hopefully not using AI to generate text might be the only valid source of truth in a near future

wslh 2y ago
I think the discussion around AI-generated content is worth exploring beyond the obvious concerns. If you're original and use AI as part of your creative toolbox, that's great, what matters is the work you produce and the unique touch you give it. There’s no rule that says we have to post an unfiltered output of an LLM. On the research side, it would be fascinating to explore measures of randomness or originality within LLM models. I'm sure many researchers are already investigating how genuinely novel content like new poetry can influence and evolve these models over time.
aksss 2y ago
I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work and that makes me think about the honesty of my beliefs about why I write. In my hobby domain, authors were traditionally very protective of obscure sources, it was all about getting the book published, becoming recognized authority. There would be a sense of pride in having an expensive limited-run book. They were/are gate-keepers extraordinaire. I kind of hate that hoarding of knowledge. But maybe my approach wasn’t about the virtue of making info available to all, but more like Bezos’ theme of, “your margin is my opportunity”. I still appreciate some recognition and am not writing to feed a machine. Someone back during the Industrial Revolution remarked that the machines and engines are supposed to aid people but when you go into a factory you see the people climbing all over the machines to fix them, and sometimes at great risk of injury, like we are here for the care and feeding of the machines. Just makes me think.
- Minor49er 2y ago
  > I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work... I still appreciate some recognition and am not writing to feed a machine. I don't get this focus on so-called AI. Google and other bot farms have been hoovering up hard work wholesale for decades, even intercepting clicks and credit via things like AMP If people give up writing, then only bots will be writers. Damn the technology and keep posting
  - aksss 2y ago
    Maybe it's a new level of accessibility to data that's afforded by AI?

by aprdm 2y ago

wslh 2y ago

I think the discussion around AI-generated content is worth exploring beyond the obvious concerns. If you're original and use AI as part of your creative toolbox, that's great, what matters is the work you produce and the unique touch you give it. There’s no rule that says we have to post an unfiltered output of an LLM. On the research side, it would be fascinating to explore measures of randomness or originality within LLM models. I'm sure many researchers are already investigating how genuinely novel content like new poetry can influence and evolve these models over time.

aksss 2y ago

I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work and that makes me think about the honesty of my beliefs about why I write. In my hobby domain, authors were traditionally very protective of obscure sources, it was all about getting the book published, becoming recognized authority. There would be a sense of pride in having an expensive limited-run book. They were/are gate-keepers extraordinaire. I kind of hate that hoarding of knowledge. But maybe my approach wasn’t about the virtue of making info available to all, but more like Bezos’ theme of, “your margin is my opportunity”. I still appreciate some recognition and am not writing to feed a machine. Someone back during the Industrial Revolution remarked that the machines and engines are supposed to aid people but when you go into a factory you see the people climbing all over the machines to fix them, and sometimes at great risk of injury, like we are here for the care and feeding of the machines. Just makes me think.

Minor49er 2y ago
> I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work... I still appreciate some recognition and am not writing to feed a machine. I don't get this focus on so-called AI. Google and other bot farms have been hoovering up hard work wholesale for decades, even intercepting clicks and credit via things like AMP If people give up writing, then only bots will be writers. Damn the technology and keep posting
- aksss 2y ago
  Maybe it's a new level of accessibility to data that's afforded by AI?