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Hot take: LLM technology is being purposefully framed as AI to avoid accountability (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by assassin_aragorn to c/technology

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Which of the following sounds more reasonable?

I shouldn't have to pay for the content that I use to tune my LLM model and algorithm.
We shouldn't have to pay for the content we use to train and teach an AI.

By calling it AI, the corporations are able to advocate for a position that's blatantly pro corporate and anti writer/artist, and trick people into supporting it under the guise of a technological development.

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[–] pensivepangolin 98 points 1 year ago (33 children)

I think it’s the same reason the CEO’s of these corporations are clamoring about their own products being doomsday devices: it gives them massive power over crafting regulatory policy, thus letting them make sure it’s favorable to their business interests.

Even more frustrating when you realize, and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, these new “AI” programs and LLMs aren’t really novel in terms of theoretical approach: the real revolution is the amount of computing power and data to throw at them.

[–] assassin_aragorn 59 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The funniest thing I've seen on this is the ChatGPT CEO, Altman, talking about how he's a bit afraid of what they've created and how it needs limitations -- and then when the EU begins to look at regulations, he immediately rejects the concept, to the point of threatening to leave the European market. It's incredibly transparent what they're doing.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about the technology to say if the algorithms and concepts themselves are novel, but without a doubt they couldn't exist without modern computing power capabilities.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And what are they doing? To remind, OpenAI is non-profit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought they moved to for profit back in 2019?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia lists them as non-profit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

[–] BetaDoggo_ 1 points 1 year ago

They're a non-profit managed by a for-profit, who's received most of their funding from another for-proft.

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