added by sari · updated 2y ago
LLMs and information post-scarcity
- While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own un... See more
from 🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484 by Azeem Azhar
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- The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more
from The Case for Silence by Luke Burgis
sari added
- A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long a... See more
from Revenge of the Humanities by Steven Johnson
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