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A story about fraud in the AI research community:
On September 5th, Matt Shumer, CEO of OthersideAI, announces to the world that they've made a breakthrough, allowing them to train a mid-size model to top-tier levels of performance. This is huge. If it's real.
It isn't. https://t.co/S0jWT8rDVb
advance of progress, and placed in doubt the naĂŻve faith, which I originally shared, that data and knowledge were identical. Even then, the problem was framed by
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
.@balajis says AI is widening the verification gap. A massive number of jobs will be needed to close it.
Prompting floods the world with fakes. Crypto brings back proof.
“You're gonna need cryptographically hashed posts and crypto IDs ... to know the data wasn't tampered with.”___LINEBREAK__... See more
a16zx.comsources, how could we tell truth from error? Or, in a more sinister vein, honest research from manipulation?
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
random pieces of informational flotsam were elevated to the status of genuine facts only once they were vetted by credentialled people with special access to the truth.
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Power is used to hide what is real, promote lies, and punish others for pursuing and naming the truth. Deliberate efforts are made to undermine people’s confidence in their own capacity to even know what is true – which could be the most evil thing anyone can ever do.
What this means is that the way we absorb knowledge is dependent upon what others have deemed valuable. The scholars that put together these textbooks decide what pieces of information to include, and market forces determine which textbooks make it to each school. What the student is left with is the result of this piecemealing and marketing that h... See more