Jerry 🦙💝🦙I do wonder about the future of writing - as AI assist becomes more common, I suspect most people will just assume what they are reading is AI generated, even if it isn’t.
Taggart@jerry I wrote about this at length and I'm very concerned about it. https://taggart-tech.com/ai-llms/
Maria BustillosThe only good thing about LLMs that I can see is they're getting people to question this assumption.
Human communications are very often (in whole or in part) malign, misleading, deceitful. It's almost impossible to keep this in mind if you're not a liar yourself, but we have to, and not only in the case of LLMs.
I'm a journalist and I would say that "nonfiction" is about the most suspect category of communication there is, aside from "news"
@maria Would you say that most nonfiction or journalism is written in bad faith?
No I wouldn't, it's not so simple. But readers should *always* take context and intentions and "cui bono?" into account, most of all for texts purporting to be "reporting facts."
Simple Nomad@jerry WHERE IS JERRY YOU ROBOT
☀️LightOfNight🌙@jerry If they teach AI to misspell words, then we are totally screwed.
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BubbleSec@jerry There will come a moment in the not too distant future when LLMs start eating their own tail, being trained on public content previously generated by other models.
When this happens, the challenge of the day will be to avoid cyclical re-enforcement and the deep embedding of misinformation.
In a sense, we could be experiencing the 'Golden Age' of AI generated content, where most of what it was trained on was created by real humans.
@BubbleSec if those models focus on newly generated content, I suspect we are getting close to this point.
Mans R@BubbleSec @jerry Isn't that what people have been doing for ages, though?
Florencio Cano@jerry I think this is an opportunity for digital signatures. Artists should sign attestations saying that they didn't use AI for generating their art or content.
@jerry Like how I assume anything on TV is scripted.
Francis 🏴☠️ Gulotta@jerry ahhhh!!! You almost got me! Nice try!
Keith W. McCammon@jerry I might be unique or alone in not paying this much mind. So long as the writing is relevant, concise, and teaches me something I definitely do not care what combination of man or machine produced it.
Personally, I've found that AI is a useful tool for helping me make something I've written more clear or concise, while at the same time not absolving me of my responsibility to stand by the content, accuracy, truthfulness.
pejacoby@jerry as “copilot” creeps further into MS products I see more people doing the “type by tabbing” as the autocomplete offers two, three, four words all on its own.
Time for an autocomplete essay contest…. Oh wait that’s just ChatGPT isn’t it…
DirtFarmer WithARealJob@jerry I think it may be less of an issue when good writers with a poetic steak take their time to put together thoughtful posts, but for writers that are not so gifted and/or are being lazy, yes, I'll always wonder.
And while I consider myself a decent writer, I often succumb to my lazy side when online due to personal time management issues. I'm 98% irl. When you see me post thoughtfully, assume I'm spending 10 minutes on the john or it's raining off of work hours.
And while I consider myself a decent writer, I often succumb to my lazy side when online due to personal time management issues. I'm 98% irl. When you see me post thoughtfully, assume I'm spending 10 minutes on the john or it's raining off of work hours.