• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Sayonara, Duolingo.

    As a writer on the internet with no power to stop these companies from scraping my work, you now want to teach me using someone else’s stolen words and teach someone English using mine. Go fuck yourself.

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      10 months ago

      The circle of life continues, and literacy goes down. AI cannot proofread, it merely says “these letters usually go with these”. AI screws up, people get taught shit language, they use it, it gets used as training data, rinse and repeat.

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        10 months ago

        The Extinction level meteor can’t come soon enough.

        Time to pack it in and give some other microorganism a shot at the evolutionary big-leagues. Maybe they’ll do better.

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          Assuming we take the Halo lore as a matter of fact and are not projecting human faults to the Covenant: I guess not really.

          As soon as monarchs or religious leaders emerge it’s game over.
          And I’d guess there will always be someone more rich than the other one and be in charge of something more resulting in something like a capitalist system.

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        10 months ago

        Well language is a fluid thing. If more and more people get taught shit language, the language will change to match. We have far worse problems on this planet :)

        I do think these AI companies grabbing what they can without giving anything back is a problem though. In my view content creators are a bit hypocritical too though. When Google scraped the internet verbatim (viewable in google cache) they didn’t mind because it gave them discoverability. Now they suddenly do care because they don’t benefit directly. Really, the stance should have been made earlier. But I do agree it should be stopped. Or content creators compensated.

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        10 months ago

        Absolutely the large language models are over glorified word predictors that get it wrong. I’d go so far as to say, they get it wrong nearly all the time.