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Ted Chiang wrote about: that ChatGPT is a “blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web.” But the paper includes the math that proves the claim.
What this means is that text from before last year—text that is known human-generated—will become increasingly valuable. //
Tatütata • July 5, 2023 8:47 AM
What this means is that text from before last year—text that is known human-generated—will become increasingly valuable.
A bit like steel smelted before 8 August 1945… //
Tatütata • July 5, 2023 8:54 AM
The tails of the original content distribution disappear. Within a few generations, text becomes garbage, as Gaussian distributions converge and may even become delta functions. We call this effect model collapse.
Academia just discovered GIGO and the telephone game. Alleluia!
Just as we’ve strewn the oceans with plastic trash and filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide,
and low-orbit space with débris.
so we’re about to fill the Internet with blah.
Isn’t it already? I just made my daily contribution. //
Winter • July 5, 2023 9:04 AM
I see a very lucrative market appearing for (high school) students working part-time as “real” human text producers. //
NC • July 5, 2023 9:27 AM
Hah, normal people don’t get paid! If a big tech company decides they want highschooler’s essays, they’ll just have Pierson or a pierson-alike company make essay-writing a part of the homework program they distribute with their textbooks, and thousands of teachers will require hundreds of thousands of students to submit millions of hours of work for free. For which Pierson might make a few bucks. //
Winter • July 5, 2023 9:49 AM
@NC
Hah, normal people don’t get paid!
Damn, my scheme is already torpedoed by those pesky capitalists.
But the matter is not really solved yet:
Who Owns Student Work?
https://designobserver.com/feature/who-owns-student-work/12667/
I know local Universities claim copyright to student’s works by way of some overarching educational contract (this is EU). I am not sure whether that has ever been tested in court. But I have never heard of schools being allowed to sell student work without getting the student involved. //
