xhieron

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[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Really? Didn't stop me...

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Just cheat? Whatever happened to ~~class~~ cheating? In the old days if the game was too hard and you didn't have a big brother to do it for you, you just put in the godmode code or turned on a trainer or something.

Some games are just hard. That's what makes getting good at them feel rewarding. The Souls games haven't really been for me either (due to the pking--not so much the difficulty), but it's not like the game makers owe me anything.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

That's a game of legal Russian roulette I wouldn't want to play. Eventually he's going to rip off the wrong person, and in the meantime all his victims have the option of sitting on their claims (SOL notwithstanding) to find out if he ever makes any money.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 ends support in 2027 (although it doesn't matter quite as much). And it's likely that the Win 11 LTSC later this year will necessarily be free from much of 11's bullshit. Linux is still the right call, but for those of us who need to run a Windows machine for whatever reason, there are alternatives, so, you know... yarr.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

That was the point... Did you reply to the wrong comment?

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That's flattering, but I was actually just expecting a press release. So where is it?

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago (14 children)

She sure can't. Sounds like all OpenAI has to do is produce the voice actor they used.

So where is she? ...

Right.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

AI = Absent Indians

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

SO close. Just another five or ten seconds to finish the whole license. I would love to see someone cover this thing and tie it off.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

And you're absolutely right about that. That's not the same thing as LLMs being incapable of constituting anything written in a novel way, but that they will readily with very little prodding regurgitate complete works verbatim is definitely a problem. That's not a remix. That's publishing the same track and slapping your name on it. Doing it two bars at a time doesn't make it better.

It's so easy to get ChatGPT, for example, to regurgitate its training data that you could do it by accident (at least until someone published it last year). But, the critics cry, you're using ChatGPT in an unintended way. And indeed, exploiting ChatGPT to reveal its training data is a lot like lobotomizing a patient or torture victim to get them to reveal where they learned something, but that really betrays that these models don't actually think at all. They don't actually contribute anything of their own; they simply have such a large volume of data to reorganize that it's (by design) impossible to divine which source is being plagiarised at any given token.

Add to that the fact that every regulatory body confronted with the question of LLM creativity has so far decided that humans, and only humans, are capable of creativity, at least so far as our ordered societies will recognize. By legal definition, ChatGPT cannot transform (term of art) a work. Only a human can do that.

It doesn't really matter how an LLM does what it does. You don't need to open the black box to know that it's a plagiarism machine, because plagiarism doesn't depend on methods (or sophisticated mental gymnastics); it depends on content. It doesn't matter whether you intended the work to be transformative: if you repeated the work verbatim, you plagiarized it. It's already been demonstrated that an LLM, by definition, will repeat its training data a non-zero portion of the time. In small chunks that's indistinguishable, arguably, from the way a real mind might handle language, but in large chunks it's always plagiarism, because an LLM does not think and cannot "remix". A DJ can make a mashup; an AI, at least as of today, cannot. The question isn't whether the LLM spits out training data; the question is the extent to which we're willing to accept some amount of plagiarism in exchange for the utility of the tool.

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