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(DIR) Post #AUYCZMROcu92fE6FsW by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-11T18:24:43Z
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Super depressing read on the r/freelanceWriters subreddit:"I literally lost my biggest and best client to ChatGPT today. This client is my main source of income, he’s a marketer who outsources the majority of his copy and content writing to me. Today he emailed saying that although he knows AI’s work isn’t nearly as good as mine, he can’t ignore the profit margin. [...] Please do not think you are immune to this unless you are the top 1% of writers."https://www.reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/it_happened_to_me_today/
(DIR) Post #AUYCl330YYQ1zXGW1I by studio6o7@mastodon.world
2023-04-11T18:26:17Z
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@simon Just a faster way to the lowest common denominator
(DIR) Post #AUYCvglniwoc5II5pY by mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2023-04-11T18:26:29Z
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@simon I saw this last night…And today got a message from another marketer asking for advice on how to switch from being a “writing” freelance business to more strategy-centricShe said that multiple of her writing clients switched her to just editing ChatGPT output. I hate this so much.
(DIR) Post #AUYD7dEmgRh6bTXgkC by newsorpigal@mastodon.social
2023-04-11T18:27:45Z
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@simon Artists and content creators are probably the first people to get replaced by AI. The same is happening with Stable Diffusion.
(DIR) Post #AUYDJK8pVYiIqxKfcO by troed@ioc.exchange
2023-04-11T18:30:25Z
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@simon I don't understand why this should be phrased as depressing.The ice harvesters lost their jobs to refrigerators. That was a good thing, even though it of course was painful for the ice business.https://www.britannica.com/video/213478/Hauling-Ice-Down-the-Illinois-River-history-ice-cutting-in-the-1900s
(DIR) Post #AUYDVY0XmMTZKlHkwK by colin@hoagie.fun
2023-04-11T18:32:29Z
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@simon
(DIR) Post #AUYELqBHSNP6ktF6mG by peregrine@merveilles.town
2023-04-11T18:44:54Z
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@simon freelancing is always a race to the bottom. I suspect some people might say "yo just take on 10x as many contracts and let gpt write and you edit" and they just miss the point, nobody will come to you if they can skip right to gpt.
(DIR) Post #AUYEYgOx7zJGBnlGbI by bajcmartinez@hachyderm.io
2023-04-11T18:46:11Z
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@simon So far AI isn’t capable of generating new ideas, it simply learns from what is out there.It will get harder from here, but writers will still be needed, as humans only are capable of creating the new.It will be hard, and AI will completely change our way of life, we need to change to and adapt to the new reality or we will become obsolete.Good luck to us all!
(DIR) Post #AUYFT3fnn6SIa9WZai by cozymel@kolektiva.social
2023-04-11T18:57:26Z
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@simon this reminds me of the observation that (something along the lines of): everyone was expecting AI to replace menial tasks so we could make more art, but instead AI is trying to replace art so we can do more menial tasks.
(DIR) Post #AUYFepljJSwyvvucBE by pixelpusher220@universeodon.com
2023-04-11T18:59:27Z
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@simon If something can be produced at lower cost without significant quality loss...well, that's basic economics. Disruptive tech does that.This person put all his eggs in one basket and a market shift made that single egg go bad.As other posters note, it's painful in the micro-sense. It can completely ruin people. In the macro sense it becomes a footnote unfortunately.We can choose as a society to fund things against that trend, but only at societal scale, and advert copy writing isn't going to be in that set of things.The CHIPS Act is an example of funding against that trend. It's cheaper to outsource, but that has other indirect costs like security loss due to compromised supply chains.
(DIR) Post #AUYGo4cDaCqVXWQt5U by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-11T19:12:15Z
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@troed I find it depressing because I worry that this is a trickle that's about to become a floodI'm depressed about the short term pain, independent of the potential long term gains
(DIR) Post #AUYH10LclG6g4IpxZI by al@social.coop
2023-04-11T18:45:51Z
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@troed @simon Because LLMs are just large autocomplete systems. They don't generate new ideas or have the capacity to *create.* It's bad for writers to lose their jobs to systems that actually cannot emulate what they do, and it's bad for the rest of us, users of the information ecosystem, to continue to pollute the internet with good-at-SEO, bad-at-actual-facts content.
(DIR) Post #AUYH112AD68OCEjvsG by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-11T19:14:42Z
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@al @troed I'm no longer convinced by the "they don't generate new ideas" argument: I use them as a brainstorming device to generate new ideas on an almost daily basis nowAs always, the trick is to be creative with your prompts"Give me twenty ideas for marketing slogans for Datasette inspired by marine biology" for example
(DIR) Post #AUYI78sI4U40CobgvI by habinator@social.dev-wiki.de
2023-04-11T19:26:50Z
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@simon work sucks anyway…🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #AUYIJvW33ASUXTIcqm by willowpje@mastodon.nl
2023-04-11T19:28:16Z
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@simon This has been happening for years now in the translation business. I can entirely confirm that many businesses don't give a flying fuck about quality, even when they say they do. The only surprise I feel, if I can even call it surprise, is that it's now happening so fast to another (albeit related) industry.
(DIR) Post #AUYIpj8Uc7LPPTReuu by smeg@assortedflotsam.com
2023-04-11T19:35:04Z
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@simon Capitalism at its best. Maximize profits at all cost.
(DIR) Post #AUYJNMqXzYSE7t5mYS by crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me
2023-04-11T19:41:14Z
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@simon just comfirming what we already knew: advertising, and marketers, are trash
(DIR) Post #AUYPP5RYGbGMSIbV2G by sully1503@mastodon.online
2023-04-11T20:48:51Z
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@simon Yeah, that’ll last until they start getting sued. That or ChatGPT and whatnot get sued into the ground.
(DIR) Post #AUYQi0Jtdj9Y1Obj8a by VandhanaVV33@mastodon.world
2023-04-11T21:03:26Z
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@simon yepi
(DIR) Post #AUYV5S4Z1OyoZWs7pQ by amart@hachyderm.io
2023-04-11T21:52:27Z
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@simon Selling anything is always about the value proposition - the reason someone will (literally) take cash out of their pocket and put it into yours.The key word is “value” - and the one that matters is the value *perceived* by the customer. The problem is one of putting yourself in the customer’s shoes (or better ask them) how you can provide value.Today it’s ChatGPT, tomorrow something else. The horseless carriage was also a disruptor and creator. It still sucks.
(DIR) Post #AUYWRwdm9RTRhZdCvg by beatrice@fosstodon.org
2023-04-11T22:07:38Z
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@simonWhat the AI can do now is a fraction of what it will be able to do in a very short time, so that in the near future the 1% may be replaced too...
(DIR) Post #AUYXJKZzsRCBINJvaC by jcct@mastodon.online
2023-04-11T22:17:19Z
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@simon Profit margins also go down when quality goes out the door.
(DIR) Post #AUYYrkgPQoLc3OISX2 by yoshimitsu@mstdn.social
2023-04-11T22:34:39Z
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@simon Good. It's good that robots are doing the jobs we don't want to.He can do something else useful for society now.
(DIR) Post #AUYZ42x5KkSCBlxXJg by wsrphoto@sfba.social
2023-04-11T22:37:02Z
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@simon He can ignore profit margin. If he's paying the bills and earning a profit, then increasing the,profit alone isn't good business if quality of your product suffers. It's just greed.
(DIR) Post #AUYaJmMYsZCLKHwQZU by Natanael_L@mastodon.social
2023-04-11T22:51:01Z
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@simon @al @troed they can certainly interpolate to new points in between what's already been done. But if you go off track far enough it gets wonky really really fast. Same as how they easily answer correctly to questions about well known facts and then rapidly descend into incoherent rambling when you ask niche questions about esoteric topics.
(DIR) Post #AUYdKmVI8n8JunC6pU by BernieWonIowa@mastodon.social
2023-04-11T23:24:47Z
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@simon Unless you are a celebrity in your own right, basically.
(DIR) Post #AUYdlv3USDu6Fw8Aee by aethervision@mastodon.social
2023-04-11T23:29:55Z
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@simon @donmelton I think it’s reasonable to let folks like me know who this client is so we don’t throw our money after people who won’t support their local business ecology.
(DIR) Post #AUYeXzXJ66Q03N03rE by DavBot@nerdculture.de
2023-04-11T23:38:25Z
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@simon This is what I mean when I say mindset is what makes new things do bad stuff. Cost-cutting and doing the same for less instead of being able to do more with less time will be what makes using AI tools shiddy.
(DIR) Post #AUYhzmcwzBozzIaEPQ by paninid@mastodon.world
2023-04-12T00:17:06Z
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@simon “Soon they’ll be asking agencies how they are using AI, and when they can stop paying $10,000 for something that is being done in 1/10th the time.”https://open.substack.com/pub/melindabyerley/p/marketingai-april2023?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
(DIR) Post #AUYkoJPdZ5oy3aZtUO by tokyo_0@mas.to
2023-04-12T00:48:23Z
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@simon @al @troed If the trick is to be creative with your prompts, surely the creativity is yours.
(DIR) Post #AUYlQsJGGaPZICz40O by Fragglemuppet@fandom.ink
2023-04-12T00:55:38Z
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@simon I'm sorry.
(DIR) Post #AUYnjxzrXuTuLE8qVk by ariaflame@masto.ai
2023-04-12T01:21:20Z
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@simon So how long before OpenAI starts charging them?
(DIR) Post #AUYo84Dg3rEyai5ySm by bok_bok_ba_gok@mas.to
2023-04-12T01:23:56Z
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@simon Step by step tech moguls have prioritized taking jobs away from humans. Why do we let them? Humans want to contribute value. Tech is eroding the heart of society and community.
(DIR) Post #AUYsRzmQg00KQl6mJc by Sahjitzu@mastodon.online
2023-04-12T02:13:59Z
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@simonHow many jobs and clients will be lost while developers and users fail to see the all too alluring yet devastating effects these technologies will have over time.We sleepily continue to hand off our skills and creativity to AI; a hastily shaped technology akin to a malevolent genie let loose from a bottle. Or is this just the Pandora's Box myth with a futuristic twist?Are we failing to keep to the rule?"Just because you can doesn't mean you should"Are these inevitable inventions?
(DIR) Post #AUYtJg3AFSpWsOX8RU by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-12T02:23:43Z
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@Sahjitzu they honestly do feel pretty inevitable to me at this point: the wild thing about large language models is that, once you know the tricks, they're actually quite easy to buildExpensive because you need months of GPU time, but not nearly as complicated in terms of code and algorithms as you might expect
(DIR) Post #AUYv7hPHZu7VW9IMcq by emmysteven@me.dm
2023-04-12T02:44:09Z
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@simon switch to adding prompt engineering to your skill and watch that client come back.
(DIR) Post #AUYypsEOzfzlh2xgTg by jannem@fosstodon.org
2023-04-12T02:54:13Z
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@newsorpigal @simon Graphic designers had a similar sea change ~20-25 years ago.Flyers, restaurant menus, wedding invitations, price lists... That sort of thing was bread and butter work for most designers. Then desktop publishing happened and a large fraction of designers lost their main source of income as the work shifted to computer assisted unskilled labor.The field still thrives today, but that simple work is gone forever.
(DIR) Post #AUYypsnqrsLrSzXzjU by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-12T03:25:28Z
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@jannem @newsorpigal That's a really interesting comparison, I hadn't seen that one before
(DIR) Post #AUYztPN4Ky5jIVGTZY by liztai@hachyderm.io
2023-04-12T03:37:24Z
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@simon Literally weeks after ChatGPT was released, a friend in PR/Marketing excitedly told me how her client is now using ChatGPT to write the copy of his website. She was terribly confused by my dismay. It's happening sooner than we think. Many freelancers are going to be impacted.
(DIR) Post #AUZ3SFKfx5iwA3Rtlg by dustin@mastodon.dustinwilson.com
2023-04-12T04:17:24Z
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@simon @jannem @newsorpigal I was around for that one. What "AI" will and is starting to do to the industry will be a much bigger sea change.Also to be honest I'm glad everyone's nephew/cousin/etc. with a pirated copy of Photoshop popped up to do wedding invitations because let me tell you they're a nightmare. Hahah.
(DIR) Post #AUZAYEaUKm4pGdeDBo by mmby@mastodon.social
2023-04-12T05:37:07Z
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@simon Glad to see some compassion here, there are many who will push this fate aside as "made some bad life decisions" (which is only a reflexive defense to make oneself feel different enough to not associate with the possibility of it happening to oneself) and "the price of progress".I don't think prompt engineering has much of a future either when you can just A/B test the prompts and mutate them automatically.Human roles may be in testing infrastructure, the fun things will be automated
(DIR) Post #AUZCCrtHj0tahYNZOS by theteapixie@mstdn.ca
2023-04-12T05:55:34Z
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@simon I tested an AI service by asking for a diagnosis.It parroted exactly what had been said by docs and the internet.Of course, it was wrong. DEAD wrong.I’m at a place that requires investigation and innovation.It could not do either.If AI services rely on already written work, will they eventually be relying on themselves? Will there be no new thought, solutions, or innovation?It suggests businesses that choose the AI path are doomed to mediocrity.Non?
(DIR) Post #AUZDhVw3VK61XVqtBA by twobiscuits@graz.social
2023-04-11T22:14:21Z
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@al @troed @simon unfortunately, maybe a lot of writing was superfluous already. most of the marketing in the world is pretty much on the level of spam. If there's a market for human writing, it's for communication tasks that are much more targeted, that need integration of knowledge from multiple fields and that have to be vastly more effective. >
(DIR) Post #AUZDhWp0D234HvYlpA by twobiscuits@graz.social
2023-04-11T22:17:44Z
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@al @troed @simon ai can repoduce stuff that already exists in a certain volume. But there are many communicative situations where just a few ppl in the world have their own language for something and the things that need to be said are very nearly unique. >
(DIR) Post #AUZDhXf75HjStXwO36 by robotman@mstdn.social
2023-04-12T03:18:47Z
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@twobiscuits @al @troed @simon So much of this thread can be summarized by the outsider encountering a new subject xkcd comic.https://xkcd.com/793/I'd suggest you all read up on the work of @emilymbender and some neuroscience. You'll quickly discover the significant & important fundamental differences between #SALAMI and biological brains.Trying to replace actual writers with chat gpt will lead to more articles nobody will actually read.SALAMI source: @quinta https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/
(DIR) Post #AUZDhbKLSRUqGIFrEW by twobiscuits@graz.social
2023-04-11T22:18:57Z
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@al @troed @simon the bottleneck will be as it has always often been, potential clients not realizing what they need. <>
(DIR) Post #AUZHYU21c2HMqUarSa by princelysum@aus.social
2023-04-12T06:55:30Z
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@simon So not concerned about the inaccuracies?
(DIR) Post #AUZKaIX9dFqBcwi8Zc by multilingualchurch@theres.life
2023-04-12T07:29:15Z
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@simon I give them two weeks before they realise their mistake.
(DIR) Post #AUZMAsZdDJSvmYsPzc by schoolingdiana@mstdn.social
2023-04-12T07:47:20Z
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@simon Until he finds the ChatGPT copy doesn’t covert anywhere near was highly as yours. Or figures out how many mistakes are in it. #chatgpt
(DIR) Post #AUZNHuxMqvYN9atoCe by florimond@fosstodon.org
2023-04-12T07:59:40Z
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@simon What’s really sad is the recognition that the work is of lesser quality, and I suppose they’d honestly like to keep going with that person’s work, yet they go with the AI still.Why? I believe this is called: The impersonal domination of capital…
(DIR) Post #AUZP5BrurXSRkWPN1k by musictraveler@mastodon.online
2023-04-12T08:19:57Z
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@simon People do understand it but AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be anyway the end of humanity 🙈
Very interesting article about the extreme risks of AI for total human life
By unleashing AI we probably opened the box of pandora and we will not be able anymore to stop it’s destruction of all human life 🤷🏻♀️
#AI #DangerousAI #DangerousChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligenceWillKillHumanity #ChatGPT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opinion/yuval-harari-ai-chatgpt.html
(DIR) Post #AUZSkzmGVVAgH4OI7c by iagondiscord@wetdry.world
2023-04-12T09:00:34Z
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@simon I keep thinking programmers are not in too much danger of being outright replaced because ChatGPT is not actually the best programmer, and it frequently does things in an inefficient, stupid manner, or just does them entirely wrong but in a way that SOUNDS convincing. I keep thinking my prospective future job is safe... Then I remember companies don't care about if things work as long as they're cheap, and my job will still end up being automated, even if humans are still needed in the pipeline. Hopefully the collective of upper management everywhere has a lightbulb moment and realizes that LLMs are not a replacement for human programmers or human writers, especially when the average writer on the internet (which is what I presume ChatGPT and GPT-4 were trained on) is about as skilled at it as a 15-year-old American--in other words, not particularly good, but at the very least comprehensible.
(DIR) Post #AUZXGhN2sVJKGny1U8 by ditol@freiburg.social
2023-04-12T09:51:17Z
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@simon "although he knows (...) isn’t nearly as good as (...), he can’t ignore the profit margin." - you can apply this to every problem in a capitalist world.
(DIR) Post #AUZcZy95EXNVZLRdXE by jakemiller@federate.social
2023-04-12T10:51:05Z
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@troed @simon And this reminds me of free trade with China. For centuries, we have had that argument: more trade allows more specialization and thus more productivity and value created. It’s win-win! Except the scale of China’s emergence into global markets meant that we had decades of wage stagnation in the rest of the world, destroyed small cities, etc. It’s not just the change, but the rate of it as well.
(DIR) Post #AUZeGDKDHpTylRMHfk by StephenC@aus.social
2023-04-12T11:09:42Z
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@simon the #robots are taking over. Let’s be clear. This is #notAI. But a pernicious precursor, softening us up to think #AI is benign. It is not.
(DIR) Post #AUZeqhzClaJSHbvxbs by waterluvian@mastodon.social
2023-04-12T11:16:28Z
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@simon Every generation wants space age technology. But no generation wants to be the one that lives through the transitional phase.
(DIR) Post #AUZf2rk2K2C20udUeG by Virginicus@universeodon.com
2023-04-12T11:18:15Z
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@simon Marketing copy is supposed to run straight down the mainstream, so LLMs are arguably better at it than humans. I hope OP finds a new niche where originality is valued.
(DIR) Post #AUZm6359JXOjjXyaAq by anarchic_teapot@lingo.lol
2023-04-12T12:37:39Z
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@simon I look forward to reading about this clod's first court case for false advertising. ChatGPT doesn't do facts, it does "in the format of what you'd expect to see".
(DIR) Post #AUZo84ORbsBEHu5oSu by vernal@universeodon.com
2023-04-12T13:00:29Z
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@simon Ugh—that’s sucks, brother. I’m disappointed on your behalf. This doesn’t bode well for society.
(DIR) Post #AUZurdaIDTRsBfkKjA by kbsez@postchat.io
2023-04-12T14:15:24Z
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@simon But who will edit the shitty content it’s putting out and handle the lawsuits when someone figures out to have another AI search for plagiarized material?
(DIR) Post #AUa1JleIQR8924PpBI by nottrobin@union.place
2023-04-12T04:47:08Z
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@alThis is sort of troed's point isn't it? Generative AI is a tool that can't replace human ingenuity but can replace the simple and more repetitive writing work. If it's well managed, this could well be a good thing - the computers can do the easy stuff freeing up people to be more genuinely creative as only humans can.It could also be badly managed and flood the world with mediocre inaccurate content and lead to massive unemployment.Time will tell.@troed @simon
(DIR) Post #AUa1JmZiyv4FuBHgh6 by SallyStrange@strangeobject.space
2023-04-12T10:55:27Z
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@nottrobin @al @troed @simon How much doubt do we really have? Under the status quo, it's obvious which of those outcomes will dominate.
(DIR) Post #AUa1JnIkHX529oLdrs by nottrobin@union.place
2023-04-12T14:33:20Z
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@SallyStrange Is it?I'm also very sceptical about capitalism, corporate greed etc.The long-term effects of technological change on unemployment continue to be debated, but I tend to agree with Mincer and Danninger that it's not an issue.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemploymentBut will society adjust to using #generativeAI in the most productive ways? It's fairly likely it doesn't, and #chatGPT exacerbates the current trends of ever more crappy youtube vids & articles exponentially. @al @troed @simon
(DIR) Post #AUa1Jo1la95oPRPb2e by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-12T15:28:12Z
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@nottrobin @SallyStrange @al @troed Here's my optimistic scenario: generative AI reduces the learning curve on creating content dramatically, which results in WAY more people creating content - and way more content overallPeople get better at finding and sharing the good stuff, so the good stuff becomes easier to find over time - and we end up with more high quality stuff from a wider field of creative people
(DIR) Post #AUa1fST8PuNTuwXP16 by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-12T15:29:08Z
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@nottrobin @SallyStrange @al @troed Look at how much amazing content came about because YouTube dropped the price of producing and publishing video from "ten thousand dollars and a film crew and a deal with a TV network" to "a phone"
(DIR) Post #AUa1spI8sFA6SulpTc by nottrobin@union.place
2023-04-12T15:30:34Z
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@simonI hope so too.Unfortunately I think this requires a lot of other things to be working well.I feel that our ability to find good content through search engines etc. Has got worse since ~2010 as big tech have solidified their monopolies and got lazy. At the same time, their algorithms reward the creation of cheap content.That has to change.@SallyStrange @al @troed
(DIR) Post #AUa233O5Jwcx4wQWlE by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-12T15:31:14Z
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@nottrobin @SallyStrange @al @troed Or... maybe the internet will be flooded with generated rubbish and we'll all give up on ever consuming anything of quality ever againI think I'd bet more on the former than the latter scenario though. I'm not planning on wasting my time watching generative-AI junk when I could be watching generative-AI-assisted masterpieces (or masterpieces that didn't have any AI involved at all)
(DIR) Post #AUa2JR1tBiYv2Jr9Dk by nottrobin@union.place
2023-04-12T15:39:19Z
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@simon The context that makes me pessimistic about your YouTube thing is YT Kids. Here is a place where I'm keenly aware of the impact of quality, and which is flooded probably more than adult YouTube with low quality tat.I still let them watch it, mind you, I like the idea of their freedom to do serendipitous learning too much. But it's still pretty concerning...@SallyStrange @al @troed
(DIR) Post #AUa6hmlQQml5DA1QvI by btravern@dice.camp
2023-04-12T16:28:29Z
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@simon The challenge is that when businesses are confronted with the Iron Triangle of "cheap, fast, good—pick two", they tend to drop the last one.
(DIR) Post #AUa8fse3nGpQmSnRQG by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-12T16:50:40Z
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@iagondiscord I'm not worried about programming jobs mainly due tot he amount of skill and experience it takes to come up with prompts like the ones I wrote about here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/12/code-interpreter/
(DIR) Post #AUd54P3AcRvenocpG4 by syntaxseed@phpc.social
2023-04-14T02:54:33Z
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@simon The marketing world is so susceptible to this because we all know most people don't actually read marketing copy. Heck most marketing isn't even about the message, it's just about getting the brand "out there" and seen in a very cursory way.If the copy is wishy-washy in quality but contains the desired keywords and isn't riddled with spelling mistakes... no one, from managers to the target audience will notice at all. 😓
(DIR) Post #AUeVVd2zTi4Hzz8zFw by robreed@mastodon.social
2023-04-14T19:23:32Z
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The seeming inevitably of tech replacing jobs stems entirely from people, not the tech. There is nothing inevitable about technology itself, or any specific use for tech.It's becoming clearer everyday that's a bad thing. What we're seeing with technology advancement is that a lot of the good in the world has been imposed by outside forces and barriers stopping or slowing the worst human tendencies.I'm not sure where we go from here. Something else is becoming clearer…
(DIR) Post #AUeYk2S67TrwhvRyue by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-04-14T20:01:48Z
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@erkhyan Wow, this stuff is happening so fast :(
(DIR) Post #AUeaZiDEiPmOwohdFw by w7@kolektiva.social
2023-04-14T20:21:42Z
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@simon this would be great if, thanks to automation, people could actually... work less.Instead we work the exact same amount, but the jobs get increasingly more bullshit and soul-crushingly boring, while the only ones truly reaping the benefits of automation are capitalists. All we get from it is perhaps more shit to consume and feel a bit better about our miserable existence.I know, preaching to the choir, but this is pretty fucking depressing.
(DIR) Post #AUeavEHcfjvaUj0yIa by w7@kolektiva.social
2023-04-14T20:26:11Z
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@simon this would not be scary if, thanks to automation, people could actually... work less.Instead we work the exact same amount, but the jobs we're left with get increasingly more bullshit and soul-crushingly boring, while the only ones truly reaping the benefits of automation are capitalists. All we get from it is perhaps more shit to consume, and feel a bit better about our miserable existence.This is pretty fucking depressing, indeed.
(DIR) Post #AUef68ntmhYyVDZPBQ by DelilahTech@tech.lgbt
2023-04-14T21:12:47Z
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@simon it won't be long until my curriculum development friends get sidelined... AI derived computer-based-training will be the next new thing.
(DIR) Post #AUla1p7xWJ72h1W0x6 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2023-04-18T05:19:07Z
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@simon @iagondiscord Great post; love your comparison with an intern. That reflects pretty much my experiments with it. One thing I’m missing is that it’s really good at explaining stuff; I’m using it to improve my limited JavaScript skills, and it can explain REALLY well. On the other side this intern often gets confused as soon as changes in multiple independent classes are required to achieve something.So no, this won’t cost programming jobs. It will make them less tedious.