A tool to generate spam content becomes plagued by it. Seems predictable.
Nice pun
The monopoly they have as a search engine means there is effectively sole responsibility on them to maintain a usable internet.
I genuinely feel sorry for the people that now have to figure out how search engines work in a world where anybody can generate reams of passable (albeit not unique) content in minutes.
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unrele...
Google is out of ideas and they are lost as a company. They will take a long time to die out but die out they will.
Here are some threads from the ocaml/julia communities as they started to catch on: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-up-with-ocamlwiki/13605 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-the-juliawiki/109335
Shame on me for not noticing earlier, but I did expect a review site listed on page 1 of google to host actual reviews
lol, thats funny.
Seriously though - the ability to industrialize and mass-produce that both LLMs and the industrial ammonia process have given us, for the bad and the good, is the real game-changer here. Treating two tools the same because both can give you the same singular result is an error if they have dramatically different - by several orders of magniture - speeds at which these results are achieved.
They're not content-neutral (no violence, no sex, etc., which some people complain about very loudly), but for anything not forbidden, gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 can output more for about $4233.60 than a human record holding stenographer can type in a working lifetime.
When it doesn't have to be amazing, and I think spam is one of many things in that category, this is absolutely a huge deal compared to a text editor.
“This is the same picture”
1. Build your entire professional ethos on automating things
2. Claim that automation doesn’t make any difference
If it’s not named already, I’d coin it “the hacker blindspot”: Scale is simultaneously paramount and irrelevant.
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There is a popular story about how, in 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The Merchant of Death Is Dead", in a French newspaper. It was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died; the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered. This inspired him to change his will.[13] Historians have been unable to verify this story and some dismiss the story as a myth.[14][15] On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage. He was 63 years old.[16]
> These findings, combined with earlier results on synthetic imagery, audio, and video, imply that technologies are reducing the cost of generating fake content and waging disinformation campaigns.
That paragraph comes from this [1] now-deleted blog post from OpenAI in 2019 when they decided not to release GPT-2 due to "concerns about malicious applications of the technology". It's hard to argue that GPT and friends are not "tools to generate spam" when the researchers themselves argued that point years ago.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190214171619/https://blog.opena...
I would even argue that it's what they're best at, because it's the one application where the tendency to confabulate is irrelevant to the use case.