Renee Malo ✨
Dave Troy 
If most of the internet is nonsense, the output of most AI will be nonsense.
We're quickly going to hit a point where a significant amount of the input into LLMs will be generated by LLMs. That seems like a dangerous precipice — assuming people continue to take this tech over-seriously.
Kevin P. Fleming@davetroy A significant percentage was already content generated by SEO farms, people who wrote stuff without understanding the subject at all. Won't be much different when it's LLM->LLM 🙂
@kevin this is cold comfort, Kevin. ;)
dave@davetroy beyond the intellectual property questions, I've been wondering if anyone has considered what's going to happen when people get out of the habit of using stack overflow, aka, training the model. Sooner or later the labour put into training will have to be encouraged.
Jack Brewer@davetroy What an interesting and accurate analogy of human social circles/echo chambers as well.
Kevin Leecaster@davetroy
"Behind a virulent strain of propaganda on Twitter are automated tweeters known as internet bots. A more dangerous variant is coming; these super-charged bots (“superbots”) are powered by the latest AI craze ... #chatgpt #ClimateBrawl #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/03/15/opinion/beware-superbots
"Behind a virulent strain of propaganda on Twitter are automated tweeters known as internet bots. A more dangerous variant is coming; these super-charged bots (“superbots”) are powered by the latest AI craze ... #chatgpt #ClimateBrawl #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/03/15/opinion/beware-superbots
Cbridge_Chief@davetroy @HistoPol Wrote about that a while ago https://castlebridge.ie/insights/llms-and-the-enshittening-of-knowledge/
Brian Dear@davetroy Garbage in, garbage out…
TDonoval@davetroy Shit in, shit out.
Dan Morgan 
Leisureguy@davetroy You may be right, but I found it interesting to have Opinionate.io debate contentious issues.
Perhaps I like it because so far the debates' results have matched my own opinions, but it does offer an interesting alternative.
https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2023/03/13/opinionate-interesting/
@davetroy spot on! LinkedIn invited me to “contribute” my expertise to one of their AI articles on a topic in my industry (HR).
These screenshots show the AI writing “quality” — it reads like a SEO spun article. Full of buzz words strung together and tons of filler words. Ugh.
The current AI hot topic of content creators reinforcing how amazing it is, some claiming you can get rich, etc., makes me think of it as another overhyped solution in search of problems to solve.
John Gordon@davetroy They have gone beyond that stage. You are weeks out of date. (Years in the old times.)
@jgordon well.. not quite. Most of the LLMs are running on training sets that cut off a couple of years ago.
@davetroy I think the focus now is on domain specific reasoning. It’s how G4 does math. There’s a lot of opportunity to do NLP on the LLM output and then incorporate domain-specific capabilities.