Frankie ✅Very easy
StarkRG@Some_Emo_Chick My initial reaction to them was something along the lines of "Ok, sure, so, what's the point?" And, as it turned out, the point was money laundering, tax evasion, and scamming people. I don't think making climate change worse was entirely intentional, people making them just didn't give a shit.
Erik (OLD ACCOUNT)@StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick my guess is the last thing people who launder money, evade taxes and scam other people care about is the climate.
But glad that grift is over, can't wait to see what the next obvious one is
Joe Dowland@erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick the next obvious one is "AI" (put in quotes because it's not intelligent, it's just a marketing scam)
@Aradiel @erikcats @Some_Emo_Chick LLMs are a solution looking for a problem. You can usually tell by the way it's marketed as being useful for anything and everything while not actually being better than anything that already exists.
Other types of generative AI aren't as bad, though that isn't saying much since LLMs are the literal worst. There are, at least, a handful of cases where they have advantages over existing solutions, but they still need a lot of handholding.
@StarkRG @Aradiel @Some_Emo_Chick explain to someone who's not a techie what LLMs are, without resorting to LMGTFY or similar things
seismographix@erikcats
LLM was trained by "looking" at text and finding patterns and rules. The original text itself is not stored in the trained model. Only the patterns which has been found. LLM is creating text word for word. Always calculating the most probable word based on all the words preceding it.
Summary: The created text by LLM is a patchwork of guessing and not a copy of information.
@seismographix @erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick what is the training data of not a collection of patterns of words?
@Aradiel @seismographix @erikcats @Some_Emo_Chick Among other things, you're unlikely to get the original back as an output, just said that's vaguely similar to the original. It's still close enough to plagiarism that I think it counts.
@StarkRG
Personally I use chatGPT to learn and explore, transform text formats, etc.
But I also dislike people publishing novels written with AI on Amazon trying to make quick money without any effort on their own.