smswigart

smswigart t1_j7eg486 wrote

We've lived in that world for at least 20 years. Google already "decides what you should know" every time it delivers search results. It's not deciding based on morality, but rather which information will make you more likely to click an ad that makes it money.

Any free service you use to find information is deciding what answers you should receive. Facebook decides what you should know. YouTube decides what you should know. Twitter decides what you should know.

But if you're curious enough, you can keep pecking away at these services to give you information that you consider to be high quality and not just the first and easiest answers.

AIs aren't going to blackhole information, unless there's a financial reward to the owners of the AI.

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smswigart OP t1_j7daxj8 wrote

I think they're trying to make it general purpose so that it can detect ChatGPT output, and outputs from other generative AI, but yeah, detecting its own output should be a no-brainer.

Also, if something existed before 2021 and is in its training data (like bible verses), it should also be certain that it wasn't AI generated.

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smswigart t1_j7cpcjo wrote

There’s already a million times more content than anyone can watch, but we have ways of socially promoting the good stuff so that it gets traction, recommendations, and people hear about it. This will also mean better content in thousands of niches where there are smaller but devoted fans.

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smswigart t1_j7a82bb wrote

I, for one, am genuinely excited to read the comics that 12-year-olds will be able to write and illustrate.

The thing that excites me the most about this technology is that it shrinks the distance between having an idea and materializing it. And, I think everyone has a few great ideas trapped inside them. For centuries, most people just didn't have a high-fidelity multi-media way to share their idea or vision with the rest of the world. With generative AI, some simple sentences can bring your idea to life.

We live in a time where most of the TV and movie studios only want to produce "sure things". So, we get franchises and sequels. But what happens when everyone sitting on a great concept can share it with the world at a relatively high production value and low cost. An explosion of originality awaits.

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