Gotta have a soundtrack. Working out, driving, etc. I used to listen to music on my headphones while taking college exams.

Woof

100%. For example, what if voters aren’t asking for a line graph showing retail theft going down, but to not see any context-free, undated mass shoplifting videos in their feeds? Good luck with that if our palantíri algo overlords don’t wish it.

You’re just getting a probabilistic traversal of some word graph that encodes an unknowable mix of right, wrong, and ambiguous text from billions of conflicting sources

A large language model isn’t doing that. There is no objective function for human speech on well-understood topics, nevermind topics on the frontier of our knowledge.

They’ve conflated all uses of machine learning with “ai”. Yes machine learning is Incredibly useful when there is a defined objective function and you can iterate endlessly and conform to some (local) maximum.

I see more of a spark of inner life in the pig’s eye

If you insist

This is one of the reasons I hate what big tech has done to AI over the last couple of years. There are great use cases for AI / machine learning. But they chose to shove incompetent models into every available receptacle while screaming "THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE, WE OWN YOU LOL"

So they’ll delete all neural network layers trained on unlicensed data and start new models with only licensed training data? You have a lot more faith in big tech than I do.

How does one license the entirety of the internet?

It absolutely is. Without the (stolen) input data, these models would not be able to generate anything at all.

So unless a model is trained solely on synthetic or licensed data sets (arguably impossible at this scale), it is a plagiarism machine.