How many of these books will just be totally garbage nonsense just so they could fulfill a prearranged quota.
Now the LLM are filled with a good amount of nonsense.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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Just use the llm to make the books that the llm then uses, what could go wrong?
Someone's probably already coined the term, but I'm going to call it LLM inbreeding.
I suggested this term in academic circles, as a joke.
I also suggested hallucinations ~3-6 years ago only to find out it was ALSO suggested in the 1970s.
Inbreeding, lol
In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality ("garbage") information or input produces a result or output of similar ("garbage") quality. The adage points to the need to improve data quality in, for example, programming.
There was some research article applying this 70s computer science concept to LLMs. It was published in Nature and hit major news outlets. Basically they further trained GPT on its output for a couple generations, until the model degraded terribly. Sounded obvious to me, but seeing it happen on the www is painful nonetheless...
Soylent AI? Auto-infocannibalism
It's quite similar to another situation known as data incest
It can only go right because corporations must be punished for trying to replace people with machines.
That would be terrible because they are both some of the best academic publishers in the humanities.
And they expect you to do this for free?
Do they not have to pay for the privilege? Or is this not referring to academic publishing? (It’s not super clear, but context indicates academic?)
If it is that makes it even worse. Academic publishers need to be abolished.
Nah, they get “Exposure”!
/s
Anyone who reviews for the major publishers is part of the problem.
For profit corporations don't deserve your volunteer work.
And yet if you aren't a reviewer it makes your CV look worse.
Agreed that you should have some kind of "service" on your CV, but reviewing is pretty low impact. And if you want to review, you can choose something other than the predatory publishers.
Such as? They're all predatory just to varying degrees.
Feed the LLM with LLM generated books. No resentment at all!
Jfc that's gross
So what you're saying is, don't beat the targets because fuck those guys. Understood.
What's the academic terminology for "go pound sand"?
Soylent Green is a lie anyway. Your need to "soylentify" half the population to feed the other half every year if it would be the only source of calories.
No, the point is that they're just recycling the dissidents they were going to murder anyway.