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The article explains the problems in great detail.

Here’s just one small section of the text which describes some of them:

All of this certainly makes knowledge and literature more accessible, but it relies entirely on the people who create that knowledge and literature in the first place—that labor that takes time, expertise, and often money. Worse, generative-AI chatbots are presented as oracles that have “learned” from their training data and often don’t cite sources (or cite imaginary sources). This decontextualizes knowledge, prevents humans from collaborating, and makes it harder for writers and researchers to build a reputation and engage in healthy intellectual debate. Generative-AI companies say that their chatbots will themselves make scientific advancements, but those claims are purely hypothetical.

(I originally put this as a top-level comment, my bad.)

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Enelop@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The claims aren’t entirely hypothetical, LLM AI has mapped nearly every known protein which humans were unable to do…

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02083-2

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- BertramDitore@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s an interesting article, but it was published in 2022, before LLMs were a thing on anyone’s radar. The results are still incredibly impressive without a doubt, but based on how the researchers explain it, it looks like it was accomplished using deep learning, which isn’t the same as LLMs. Though they’re not entirely unrelated.
  
  Opaque and confusing terminology in this space also just makes it very difficult to determine who or which systems or technology are actually making these advancements. As far as I’m concerned none of this is actual AI, just very powerful algorithmic prediction models. So the claims that an AI system itself has made unique technological advancements, when they are incapable of independent creativity, to me proves that nearly all their touted benefits are still entirely hypothetical right now.
  
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  - Enelop@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I guess that is true.
    
    I hope we are far off from AIG myself. The upheaval it will cause will be catastrophic to society.
    
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General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
YSK that scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are not paid for the knowledge they create. The knowledge is public domain.

When they publish articles, they typically transfer the copyright to the publisher, which is why they will happily assist you in pirating articles.

Patents are public with the express purpose that others may learn from them. Only the actual use of an invention requires permission. Even that lasts only 20 years rather than 100+ years as is the case with copyrights.

So, this quote is not an explanation of any problems. It is (probably deliberately) misleading. Researchers will not receive any license fees. Rather, these fees will subtract from research budgets.

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