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I don't understand how you can look at behavior like this from the companies selling these systems and conclude that it is ethical for them to do so, or for you
by NoraCodes 1y ago
I don't understand how you can look at behavior like this from the companies selling these systems and conclude that it is ethical for them to do so, or for you to promote their products.
- simonw 1y agoWhat's happening here is Claude (and ChatGPT alike) have a tool-based search option. You ask them a question - like "who won the Superbowl in 1998" - they then run a search against a classic web search engine (Bing for ChatGPT, Brave for Claude) and fetch back cached results from that engine. They inject those results into their context and use them to answer the question. Using just a few words (the name of the team) feels OK to me, though you're welcome to argue otherwise. The Claude search system prompt is there to ensure that Claude doesn't spit out multiple paragraphs of text from the underlying website, in a way that would discourage you from clicking through to the original source. Personally I think this is an ethical way of designing that feature. (Note that the way this works is an entirely different issue from the fact that these models were training on unlicensed data.)
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- NoraCodes 1y agoI understand how it works. I think it does not do much to encourage clicking through, because the stated goal is to solve the user's problem without leaving the chat interface (most of the time.)
- simonw 1y agoYeah, I agree. I actually think an even worse offender here is Google themselves - their AI overview thing answers questions directly on the Google page itself, discouraging site visits. I think that's going to have a really nasty impact on site traffic.