Arthur Besse to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • edit-21 year agoSarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Librarywww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down10
arrow-up1219arrow-down1external-linkSarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Librarywww.thedailybeast.comArthur Besse to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • edit-21 year agomessage-square129fedilink
minus-square@ag_roberston_author@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoBecause reading is an inherently human activity. An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.
minus-square@TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoLLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we’re really that special. I don’t think we are.
minus-square@Dominic@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoFor now, we’re special. LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They’re still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.
Because reading is an inherently human activity.
An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.
LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we’re really that special.
I don’t think we are.
For now, we’re special.
LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They’re still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.