just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    fleece desperate AI bros, and this may well be the only revenue stream Reddit cares about in the future.

    Isn’t it a bit late for that?

    I mean, GPT is on its fourth iteration, they’ve been working on it for years, I don’t know about Bing Chat but MS surely didn’t start develop it only yesterday.

    How can Reddit be so sure “AI bros” haven’t already got the data they needed to train their models?

    • myk@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There’s going to be lots of other challengers out there: I’m sure every ML postgrad with any nous has spent the last couple of months contacting every funder they can track down to explain how their model is going to knock the socks off the old fashioned models used by these lumbering corporations.

      And even the established models have been shown to contain content obtained in violation of user licences and copyright laws, leaving them open to all sorts of legal and political challenges. They will all be scrambling now to demonstrate that they’ve got clean hands in future models.

      It will be like the NFT gold rush all over again—the only sure way to get rich is to sell the shovels.