Comment on The End of Publishing as We Know It
SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AI companies than blog and social-media posts. (Ziff Davis is suing OpenAI for training on its articles without paying a licensing fee.) Researchers at Microsoft have also written publicly about “the importance of high-quality data” and have suggested that textbook-style content may be particularly desirable.
If they want quality data then, don’t kill them. Secondly, if they want us as gig workers providing content for AI, don’t act surprised when people start feeding gibberish. It’s already happening, llm are hallucinating a whole lot more than the earliest gpt 3 models. That means something, they just haven’t thought about it long enough. If a reasoning model gets stuff wrong 30 to 50% of the time, with peak of 75% bullshit rate, it’s worthless. Killing good journalism for this is so dumb.
If it gets wrong enough, people will stop using it. So it would be in the interests of AI companies to pay for good sources of data.
Or at least you’d hope that. In actual fact they’ll be thinking: let’s keep stealing because most people don’t know or care whether what the AI says is true. Besides, they can make money by transforming it into a tool for disseminating the views of those rich enough to pay.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That is like telling cancer that if it wants to live it shouldn’t kill the host.
You’re asking a lot from people without the ability to think about anything else than themselves