“There’s nothing magical or mystical about writing, but it involves more than placing an existing document on an unreliable photocopier and pressing the Print button.”
Ted Chiang explains how #ChatGPT and similar large language models are essential compression algorithms—and, crucially, they are LOSSY algorithms. They’re taking an already blurry internet and making it blurrier.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
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@JamesGleick Ask one to summarize, say, a book, and it'll produce a somewhat randomized paraphrase of the median consensus of what people have said about the book. I genuinely think it doesn't even factor in the text of the actual book. It's not AI, it's weak CW.
