Notices by nicholas_saunders (nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social)

@br00t4c he didn't say no. maybe he already considered it, and the answer is positive.

@peterbutler @atzanteol @jeffowski @ariaflame @dogpile

Yeah, I think this is different in degree and quality. Because it plagiarizes so well it can only and inexorably lead to much of our culture becoming a lost art.

@jeffowski @atzanteol @ariaflame @dogpile

Fuck, Jeff, tell us what you really think.

But, yeh, hunna percent, as they say now. Music, I think, is the most immediately exploitable. The long term effect being that composing becomes a lost art.

But that risk is across the board. Why learn to draw when ai will do that for you?

@br00t4c what's 267k between friends?

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski I said potential, Aria. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski bit of a strawman there, isn't it? It's just a tool like any other. As you yourself said, it's not capable of thought. Writing some boilerplate? Great.

Not understanding the hate.

Because it's an advancement. Terribly inefficient and overblown, but with great potential and some present utility.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski

It's rather remarkable, but it's also being used to write code. It collates data well, and acts as a frontend for Wikipedia.

It has utility. Of course it's hyped up. And?

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski

I'm mainly using copilot as a frontend to Wikipedia, so can only speak to that.

But the mere fact that it's able to pass exams cannot be overlooked.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski I'll be glad to test it with you. What subject do you want? You have access to it, anyhow.

But even when you find hallucinations, so what? It's not reference material.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski then what is your complaint? That it doesn't cheat well enough?

I don't understand your objection.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski oh, well I'm not pushing it on you. To start with, it's environmentally unsound.

I would only say that the chatbot aspect is groundbreaking. It's arguably going to change graphic art, and, maybe more significantly, music.

Its ability to churn our code is impressive, if of limited utility.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski and, taken to a logical extreme, maybe the death of musical composition (for example).

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski

I don't use #stackoverflow the way that I used to, but they're employing #ai on a massive scale. Why? Because everything's already been fed into the monster anyhow. And more and more responses, etc, will at least get filtered through it.

@ariaflame @dogpile @jeffowski it's sampling to the nth. Not a musician, but caught a YouTube clip about it.

WRT the chatbot, it's groundbreaking. As a tool.

@alexadeswift @jeffowski I would boost 10x if it were an option

@dogpile @jeffowski it has enormous potential to democratize education through #onelaptoperchild and similar initiatives.

@rightardia such bullshit. If you want give me $20 off my bill then I'll scan and bag. Else? Fuck off.

@blogdiva @mattsheffield plus, these guys are fuckers. Erase #mtv ? fuck them.

@blogdiva @mattsheffield this is an obvious #fairuse of #copyright material.

In the larger scope, obviously you're seeing the bigger picture.

Facts aren't copyrightable. An editorial would be, but not the facts contained within it.

@br00t4c what happened to robot factories lifting us from exploitative and menial labor?

Robot police dogs and flying drones to keep the population in line.

But human labor is still the cheapest around. Just find the right people. Disgraceful.