Inbreeding
What are you doing step-AI?
Are you serious? Right in front of my local SLM?
So now LLM makers actually have to sanitize their datasets? The horror…
I don’t think that’s tractable.
Oh no, it’s very difficult, especially on the scale of LLMs.
That said, we others (those of us who have any amount of respect towards ourselves, our craft, and our fellow human) have been sourcing our data carefully since way before NNs, such as asking the relevant authority for it (ex. asking the post house for images of handwritten destinations).
Is this slow and cumbersome? Oh yes. But it delays the need for over-restrictive laws, just like with RC crafts before drones. And by extension, it allows those who could not source the material they needed through conventional means, or those small new startups with no idea what they were doing, to skim the gray border and still get a small and hopefully usable dataset.
And now, someone had the grand idea to not only scour and scavenge the whole internet with no abandon, but also boast about it. So now everyone gets punished.
At last: don’t get me wrong, laws are good (duh), but less restrictive or incomplete laws can be nice as long as everyone respects each other. I’m excited to see what the future brings in this regard, but I hate the idea that those who facilitated this change likely are the only ones to go free.
that first L stands for large. sanitizing something of this size is not hard, it’s functionally impossible.
You don’t have to sanitize the weights, you have to sanitize the data you use to get the weights. Two very different things, and while I agree that sanitizing a LLM after training is close to impossible, sanitizing the data you give it is much, much easier.
Imo this is not a bad thing.
All the big LLM players are staunchly against regulation; this is one of the outcomes of that. So, by all means, please continue building an ouroboros of nonsense. It’ll only make the regulations that eventually get applied to ML stricter and more incisive.
This reminds me of the low-background steel problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
idk how to get a link to other communities but (Lemmy) r/wikipedia would like this
Interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Hahahahaha
AI doing to job of poisoning itself
AI centipede. Fucking fantastic.
How many times is this same article going to be written? Model collapse from synthetic data is not a concern at any scale when human data is in the mix. We have entire series of models now trained with mostly synthetic data: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/model_doc/phi3. When using entirely unassisted outputs error accumulates with each generation but this isn’t a concern in any real scenarios.
Good. Let the monster eat itself.
So kinda like the human centipede, but with LLMs? The LLMillipede? The AI Centipede? The Enshittipede?
Except it just goes in a circle.
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It’s the AI analogue of confirmation bias.
Looks like i need some glasses
I always thought this is why the Facebooks and Googles of the world are hoovering up the data now
Maybe this will become a major driver for the improvement of AI watermarking and detection techniques. If AI companies want to continue sucking up the whole internet to train their models on, they’ll have to be able to filter out the AI-generated content.
“filter out” is an arms race, and watermarking has very real limitations when it comes to textual content.
I’m interested in this but not very familiar. Are the limitations to do with brittleness (not surviving minor edits) and the need for text to be long enough for statistical effects to become visible?
Yes — also non-native speakers of a language tend to follow similar word choice patterns as LLMs, which creates a whole set of false positives on detection.
we already have open source AI. This will only effect people trying to make it better than what stable diffusion can do, make a new type of ai entirely (like music, but that’s not a very ai saturated market yet), or update existing ai with new information like skibidi toilet
Provides a wonderful avenue for poisoning the well of big techs notorious asset scrapers.
Well then, here’s an idea for all those starving artists: start a business that makes AND sells human-made art/data to AI companies. Video yourself drawing the rare Pepe or Wojak from scratch as proof.
