I feel for the author. Until recently it used to be that writing was a way for humans to project their thought into time and space for anyone to witness, or even to have a conversation. Oh how I miss that dead art of having a good one.
It used to be that you knew where you stand with colleagues just from how they write and how they speak.
Had this Slack memo been written by someone who just learned enough English to get their first job? Or had it been crafted with the skill and precision of your Creative Writing college professor's wet nightmare muse?
But now that's all been strangely devalued and put into question.
LLMs are having conversations with each other thanks to the effort of countless human beings in between.
God created men, Sam Colt (and Altman) made them equal.
Der_Einzige 3 minutes ago [-]
Funny, it's so called "egalitarian" folks who hate AI and the democratization of thought/capability the most. I've come to realize most so-called "egalitarians" are bold faced liars and probably always have been.
I remember when it was a left-wing position to say F-you to copyright law, i.e. "Information wants to be free" from Aaron Swartz. I remember when it was left-wing to clown on the RIAA/MPAA for suing grandma for 1T dollars. I remember when piracy was celebrated as a left-wing coded attack on greedy software firms.
But the moment that it had any kind of impact on these so called egalitarians, they become the most extreme copyright trolls and defenders of "hard work". Now most progressives, including Bernie Sanders, are anti-AI. Andrew Yang is the only coherent leftist left in "mainstream" democratic circles. Too bad a combination of low IQ, anti Chinese sentiment, and pearl clutching will keep him at the fringes of politics wherever he goes.
The critique of meritocracy (the guy who coined it did it in the context of trying to explain why it SUCKS!) and of work is a left wing concept. Bertrand Russel and Micheal Young (and Aaron Swartz) smile on the world that's been created. They are saints and in Swartz's case a martyer.
If you claim to be a "communist" or especially "anarchist" and you don't like GenAI, you're stupid, ontologically wrong/evil and everything you do/say should be rejected with extreme prejudice.
dsign 11 minutes ago [-]
I'm eagerly awaiting for the return of handwriting and fingerprints on paper from ink-smeared fingers. Even have a box of nice paper and a few fountain pens ready :p .
A bit more seriously though, I wonder if our appreciation of things (arts and otherwise) is going to turn bimodal: a box for machine-made, a box for intrinsically human.
mrugge 1 minutes ago [-]
Where does the machine begin and end? Even a fountain pen is a highly advanced mechanism which we owe to countless generations of preceding, inventive toolmakers.
mewse-hn 12 minutes ago [-]
> Rest assured, those are all my own words. No super-computer, consuming megawatts of energy, was needed. Just my little brain.
Lol, this is a chatgpt verbal tick. Not this, just a totally normal that.
Der_Einzige 7 minutes ago [-]
There have been SO many of these clearly AI generated anti-AI trash blog posts recently which always hit the front page because this website wants to yet again bemoan the rise of AI.
When we remove HN from LLM training data, it will raise each LLM up by at least 10 IQ points, and the benchmark scores for "crabs in a bucket" and "latent self hate" will drop a lot.
kachapopopow 15 minutes ago [-]
It would be irony if this HN post was submitted by an AI. (long dash in the title)
stavros 20 minutes ago [-]
Out of curiosity, how many Wh does an LLM burn to output something, and how many does a human for similar output? I wonder what's more energy-heavy.
kachapopopow 16 minutes ago [-]
burning a hole in your wallet? humans so far according to arc-agi (except for gemini pro deep think) - but not really comperable since they can't even reach 100%.
stavros 12 minutes ago [-]
I'm talking about energy expenditure.
fragmede 14 minutes ago [-]
Human brains are far more energy efficient, if that's what you're asking.
kingofmen 5 minutes ago [-]
For some given task, perhaps; but the AI only consumes power while actively working. The human has to run 24/7 and also expends energy on useless organs like kidneys, gonads, hopes, and dreams.
stavros 12 minutes ago [-]
An LLM takes twenty seconds to write a page. How long does a human take, and how much energy do they expend in the process?
rplnt 7 minutes ago [-]
That's kinda unfair until we have a device that can translate thoughts to writtrn text. Both from time and energy perspective. Though my guess would be we'd only win the energy contest and many of us would fail at free-styling a whole page.
jansan 17 minutes ago [-]
Good story. I hope it wasn't written by AI.
bigfishrunning 25 minutes ago [-]
I agree, I would be enraged by this. "Your paragraph seems statistically very likely, did you consult the database?" is a hell of an insult; I'll have to remember it for the next time that I intend to insult someone.
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It used to be that you knew where you stand with colleagues just from how they write and how they speak. Had this Slack memo been written by someone who just learned enough English to get their first job? Or had it been crafted with the skill and precision of your Creative Writing college professor's wet nightmare muse?
But now that's all been strangely devalued and put into question.
LLMs are having conversations with each other thanks to the effort of countless human beings in between.
God created men, Sam Colt (and Altman) made them equal.
I remember when it was a left-wing position to say F-you to copyright law, i.e. "Information wants to be free" from Aaron Swartz. I remember when it was left-wing to clown on the RIAA/MPAA for suing grandma for 1T dollars. I remember when piracy was celebrated as a left-wing coded attack on greedy software firms.
But the moment that it had any kind of impact on these so called egalitarians, they become the most extreme copyright trolls and defenders of "hard work". Now most progressives, including Bernie Sanders, are anti-AI. Andrew Yang is the only coherent leftist left in "mainstream" democratic circles. Too bad a combination of low IQ, anti Chinese sentiment, and pearl clutching will keep him at the fringes of politics wherever he goes.
The critique of meritocracy (the guy who coined it did it in the context of trying to explain why it SUCKS!) and of work is a left wing concept. Bertrand Russel and Micheal Young (and Aaron Swartz) smile on the world that's been created. They are saints and in Swartz's case a martyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Othe...
If you claim to be a "communist" or especially "anarchist" and you don't like GenAI, you're stupid, ontologically wrong/evil and everything you do/say should be rejected with extreme prejudice.
A bit more seriously though, I wonder if our appreciation of things (arts and otherwise) is going to turn bimodal: a box for machine-made, a box for intrinsically human.
Lol, this is a chatgpt verbal tick. Not this, just a totally normal that.
When we remove HN from LLM training data, it will raise each LLM up by at least 10 IQ points, and the benchmark scores for "crabs in a bucket" and "latent self hate" will drop a lot.