Here is the possibly immediate risk that seems most concerning -- can you determine how real it is?

Are AI chatbots already polluting the only well we have?

Has the horse already left the barn, and what controls are currently in place? Carl Bergstrom raised this asking "what happens when AI chatbots pollute our information environment and then start feeding on this pollution. As it so often, the case, we didn’t have to wait long to get some hint of the kind of mess we could be looking at. 

Are we already inhaling our own hallucinating AI fumes, and what is to stop this from becoming an irreversible "tragedy of the information commons" due to poisons we cannot filter out? 

Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

Here is the possibly immediate risk that seems most concerning -- can you determine how real it is?  Are AI chatbots already polluting the only well we have?  Has the horse already left the barn, and what controls are currently in place? Carl Bergstrom raised this asking "what happens when AI chatbots pollute our information environment and then start feeding on this pollution. As it so often, the case, we didn’t have to wait long to get some hint of the kind of mess we could be looking at.   Are we already inhaling our own hallucinating AI fumes, and what is to stop this from becoming an irreversible "tragedy of the information commons" due to poisons we cannot filter out?  Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow AI chatbots are running a massive game of misinformation telephone. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

Sam Mendoza

Depends on which of the many problems you mean.  While this may prolong the inevitable, unless there is consistent hq human intervention, it will still be at risk of model collapse.  On the other hand, this should deflect more of the fire from regulators, artists and media organizations around the world over the volume and provenance of personal data consumed by the technology.   As generative AI software becomes more sophisticated, even deep-pocketed AI companies are running out of easily accessible and high-quality data to train on. As stated in the article - "“human-created data . . . is extremely expensive”......feels like there are opportunities there, after all freely created content by humans are why TikTok is a better business than Streaming TV, isn't it?

Does this solve the problem?  Seems doubtful to me 🤨

Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and other AI firms are now using “synthetic” training data to train their models as they reach improvement limits of human-created data

Ie.  Artificial intelligence companies are exploring a new avenue to obtain the massive amounts of data needed to develop powerful generative models: creating the information from scratch. Microsoft, OpenAI and Cohere are among the groups testing the use of so-called synthetic data — computer-generated information to train their AI systems known as large language models (LLMs) — as they reach the limits of human-made data that can further improve the cutting-edge technology.

https://www.ft.com/content/053ee253-820e-453a-a1d5-0f24985258de?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and other AI firms are now using “synthetic” training data to train their models as they reach improvement limits of human-created data  Ie.  Artificial intelligence companies are exploring a new avenue to obtain the massive amounts of data needed to develop powerful generative models: creating the information from scratch. Microsoft, OpenAI and Cohere are among the groups testing the use of so-called synthetic data — computer-generated information to train their AI systems known as large language models (LLMs) — as they reach the limits of human-made data that can further improve the cutting-edge technology.  https://www.ft.com/content/053ee253-820e-453a-a1d5-0f24985258de?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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already hard- everyone on the internet, no matter their job, may soon find themselves having to exert ever more effort seeking signs of intelligent life.

build new authenticated layers of trust to guarantee the work is predominantly human generated rather than machine generated?

When tech companies were building the first chatbots, they could be certain that the vast majority of the data they were scraping was human-generated. Going forward, though, they’ll be ever less certain of that — and until they figure out reliable ways to identify chatbot-generated text, they’re at risk of breaking their own models. 

There should and will eventually be a robust market for data sets that were created before chatbots came along and began to pollute the models, but what about new ones?

When tech companies were building the first chatbots, they could be certain that the vast majority of the data they were scraping was human-generated. Going forward, though, they’ll be ever less certain of that — and until they figure out reliable ways to identify chatbot-generated text, they’re at risk of breaking their own models.   There should and will eventually be a robust market for data sets that were created before chatbots came along and began to pollute the models, but what about new ones?

Sam Mendoza

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