I'm still tempted to post things online for my own reference. And I believe we benefit from increasing the common wealth of information online.
But the fact my own posts are feeding the thing that will cause massive redundances in my industry, ultimately being a detriment to my financial worth, is causing me pause for thought.
Because ChatGPT isn't just a way to share the information I put online. It'll eventually, in a year I'd guess, replace me and my colleagues; it'll be regurgitating fully formed projects, and probably learn to do the ancillory activies.
We are living through the early Napster years when people were saying with a straight face that "everything has changed now in regards to intelectual property" and "information [specifically, music in mp3 format] wants to be free". In Morgan Freeman's narration, they were about to find that little had, in fact, changed.
you are just working for free so other people can get rich off your work.
-- This has been true ever since the FB/Twitter era took off
Also on FB/Twitter/isnta you can build up a following that likes you work, that you can then market/sell to. again with chatgpt you end up with nothing in the end.
I have a project where I shared a lot of JavaScript info over the years and those articles are growing 10% month over month. Some get 500 daily views despite there being ChatGPT.
You just can’t trust it, neither can you get it to give you real context or the required visuals.
Although I don't know how well ChatGPT++ can answer the question: "Give me an introduction to XYZ technology and include examples and questions"
Just because someone could be financially motivated to post content doesn't mean that they have to.
I like to comment on Reddit and HN, and I don't expect to be paid for it (but if you would like to pay me then by all means).
If I release all my writing under CC, then they should kredit me if my writing s are a part of the dataset it is trained on, as it in some capacity is a derivative thereof.
Also the same reason people still hang out in real life even though online game, chat services, and social media exist.
These are tools, and some people get too into the tools...but at the end of the day there's a time and a place for them.
And I do think some formats don't lend themselves to just asking a chatbot, especially if you don't know enough to formulate the question to ask. Book are a good example since you read them to learn things you don't know yet (in theory)
So all future models contain some morsel of their being. And the more original the person's ways of thinking, and expressing, the more influence they have on the model, as their thoughts are not as easily compressed or aligned with common embeddings.
Given that google owns youtube I imagine they would be in an ideal position to extract and use the information in youtubes videos to power their chatbot in a way nobody else can.
"Well, why would anyone write about anything anymore unless it’s something very specific and unknown. From ChatGPT I see that clean coding is a well established concept. I feel so because I agree with most of the things it says."
So I feel what you are saying. At the same time I think blog posts might evolve to hybrid things where you just talk to an AI and share your thoughts on its output.
You can read the post if you want: https://gurel.kaynak.link/2023/03/09/clean-coding/
In an abstract sense, I can imagine someone wanting self help advice may actually not want it from an AI, but a human instead because the domain of that advice would be highly dependent on individual experience or opinion that AI couldn't reliably provide. There would be too much risk in an AI providing purely specious advice that doesn't apply to reality.
For instance, a generic AI available to the public probably will not provide you non-mainstream dietary advice. An AI giving dating advice may ultimately default to reductive "boomer" advice and be unwilling to give controversial advice based on real world experience that may be superior.
Though it may not be forever, humans still have the advantage of individual initiative and experience in the physical world. If anything about your life is extraordinary or if you're radical in any way, which describes a minority of the public, there may still be a place for their sort of content.
Internet is a communication system. WhatsApp is internet. Will messaging your mom become irrelevant because you can just as ChatGPT? Well, maybe, but I don't see it happen in the near future. Okay, I see, you meant to say "world wide web", stuff you access in your browser, yeah… This doesn't really help either, because you access all sorts of stuff using your browser, it's just a lousy set of wrappers to render whatever there is, including WhatsApp.
So, okay, what do people do on the internet besides WhatsApp? They watch Twitch, for instance. Why? Are they looking for answers there? Surely not, generally it's such a mindbogglingly useless stupid waste of time it's hard to believe people actually watch this shit, yet they do, a lot, and even donate money like they are grateful their useless time is uselessly wasted. Also, it's a well-known fact they aren't even looking for a specific kind of content: if you are a streamer with 10K online you can do basically whatever you want, these people are following you, not whatever it is you did when they joined your channel. So, will people stop watching real people, because there are, well, rendered people? I'd say it's unlikely in the foreseeable future.
For the same reasons it's unlikely that people won't visit 4chan and HN anymore, all sorts of thematic forums and such. Obviously, they won't stop accessing online libraries, because when you want to read Kafka, you want to read Kafka and not a ChatGPT-generated summary of Kafka. Same with watching LoTR (even though it can be completely generated by NN, the movie has to have a name and you want to know that it's the same stuff your friend, "friend" or the favourite twitch-streamers of yours recommends, not some custom-generated movie, tailored specially for you). Same with every blogger, podcaster, youtuber. You may like recommendation systems, but it doesn't really diminish the role of trusted opinions for majority of people so far.
So, what else is there on the internet? Shitty information portals with copywriter-generated articles? Well, ok, now it will be ChatGPT-generated articles. So what? I suppose it may turn out to be actually better than human copywriters. Maybe Wikipedia will be less relevant (but it wouldn't, if it was better structured, and the main (even though it's false) claim of Wikipedia is that it doesn't generate original content anyway).
Surely a lot of things will look quite different 30 years forward. But it's hard to predict how exactly they will look, and I'm pretty sure it won't be whatever you imagine right now.
jQuery('body').bind('cut copy paste', function (e) { e.preventDefault(); });
jQuery("body").on("contextmenu",function(e){ return false; });
- open developer tools (CTRL-SHIFT-I, or F12)
- make sure you are on Elements tab
- click on '<body class=...' tag line
- then in the right hand panel switch to Event Listeners tab
- remove anything you like(contextmenu, cut, copy, paste in this case)
I'm sure there is a similar way in Firefox...
I'm finding that whatever search is used, it's much the same results with same political leanings so in fact Ai search doesn't offer anything new in that event. I'm a sceptic.
Here’s what happened: I made an account to play around with chat GPT, then wanted to switch to my company email address to use their API on that account. They wouldn’t let me use my phone number to sign up for a second account, so I deleted the first one. Unfortunately, deleting that account didn’t free it so I could sign up again with a new number. I then went and bought a new phone number from Google Voice out of desperation since their support never replied, but they don’t allow voip numbers, so that was in vain. My initial support request was in early January, and both that one and my follow up a couple weeks ago have gone unseen. So it feels as though I’m hard locked out from an API that looks like a lot of fun to use for both personal and professional projects. What is one to do?
I hesitate to talk about it too much lest they get abused to high hell and eventually filtered like everyone else, but at least a few months ago I was able to register an OpenAI account using one of their numbers
Buy a burner SIM then change the 2FA to Google Auth?
I’ll give it a go regardless! Thank you for the idea
I can't wait to see how GPT-4 is!
LLMs have been around for a while and they aren't really that different than they were a few years ago tech-wise. The question was always about being able to get good data and compute power for training/running them.
Now that people understand the capabilities of the tech, it's got potential for profit and there's incentive to throw money at it.
So they've had plenty of time to increase the training set, improve the architecture and run GPUs full power to get a GPT-4.
