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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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And what does that mean about the jobs it can replace?
They can replace the bullshit jobs of which we have many, serving the essential purpose of keeping the people doing them fed and thus the economy and society stable. 🥲
It can replace nothing. It can make the job of eg. developers easier. And on a small, private scale ML can replace writers and stock photo libraries, if they have support for pictures. However, on a larger scale, both would have massive problems of quality, diversity and copyright. You can't use the output of a ML algorithm for things you earn anything with if there are active cases exploring if the copyright belongs to the ML itself, the producers of the training data, who probably didn't give anyone consent, no one, or actually you.
Better tell Adobe, as they are loading their Photoshop full of AI stuff.
If you type "paint me an elephant", yeah, you might not get copyright on that, but nobody would buy your elephant picture anyway. So that's hardly an issue. The moment you actually produce something complex with the help of AI, there will be so many steps involved that you'll get copyright on it no problem.
And once the AI gets smart enough to produce complex things by itself, without a human hand holding it along the way, you'll have bigger problems to worry about anyway. Since at that point the AI isn't just replacing the artist, it's replacing the whole media production chain. No more need to wait for Hollywood to make a movie, you can just tell your AI what you want to see and it will produce one on demand, customized specifically for you. What we see today is basically the beginnings of the Holodeck, endless on-demand entertainment customized for the user.