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   Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:52 JST Reed Mideke

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   So @Toke@helvede.net points out (https://mastodon.social/@Toke@helvede.net/110848880977610283) that #OpenAI does claim to have unique user agent and honor robots.txt when scraping text for #ChatGPT #AI training. Not clear whether this is the only or even primary way publicly accessible web content gets into their training set though https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:53 JST Reed Mideke

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     There's also been talk about standards to identify AI generated content, leading to hilarious option of falsely identifying your real content as AI generated to stop people from training AI on it

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:53 JST Reed Mideke

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     Folks have suggested CSS based approaches to poison models (like white text on white background) but there's a significant risk of breaking accessibility. Also risk of search engines thinking it looks spammy again

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:53 JST Reed Mideke

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     A general problem with poisoning like this is that any technique which becomes really widespread will likely be noticed and filtered out. OTOH, if the goal is to not have your content used, that may be OK!

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:53 JST Reed Mideke

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     Good to see mainstream press finally touching the question of whether #LLM #AI BSing is fixable or an inherent property of the tech, even if it gets a bit of he said, she said treatment.

     Also uh "Those errors are not a huge problem for the marketing firms turning to Jasper AI for help writing pitches…" marketing doesn't care if their pitches are BS? KNOCK ME OVER WITH A FEATHER

     https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/can-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-be-fixed-experts-doubt-altman-openai/

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:54 JST Reed Mideke

     People building models will be keen to exclude AI generated content from the training set. So, would interspersing stuff that scores high as AI-generated (whether it actually is or not) cause entire pages to be excluded? You could separate it from the real content in ways that humans would understand. OTOH, if you care about SEO it'd be pretty risky