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    01 year ago

    The thing is, the LLM doesn’t actually know anything, and lies about it.

    Just like your average human journalist. If you ever read an article from not specialist journal on a topic you are familiar with - you know. This seems actually where LLM are very similar to how human brain works - if we don’t know something, we come up with some bullshit.

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      91 year ago

      Even medium human writers can comprehend their work as a whole, though. There is a cohesiveness even to the bullshit. The LLM is just putting words down that match the prompt. It’s rng driven, readable Lorum Ipsum.

      If the results were still edited afterwards, there may be some merit to the output, but any company going full LLM isn’t looking for quality. They want to use it to churn out endless content that they simply can’t get from even a team of humans. More than could be edited even if they kept editors on staff.

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        -51 year ago

        Even medium human writers can comprehend their work as a whole, though

        Sure, but a lot of humans are rather bad writers.

        but any company going full LLM isn’t looking for quality.

        That is true for 24h news cycle of online media, regardless LLM.

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          41 year ago

          Sure, but a lot of humans are rather bad writers.

          Bad writing is still a step above rng junk, imo.

          but any company going full LLM isn’t looking for quality.

          That is true for 24h news cycle of online media, regardless LLM.

          Yes, that was my point. Setting up your company to put out more content than can possibly be processed by humans is a glaring sign of their values - ie quantity far above quality.

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            01 year ago

            Bad writing is still a step above rng junk, imo.

            I’v read writing worse than GTP. I had to help someone write an essay - and I just wrote it for him in the end, because he absolutely lacked the skills to write a long meaningful text. At at the same time - genius of a percussionist.

            • Ech
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              41 year ago

              Do you think that person was signing up for jobs writing for blogs or content farms?

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                -21 year ago

                Have you read some low quality journalism? The whole yellow press can be replaced with GTP and no one would ever see a difference.

                • Ech
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                  51 year ago

                  Ok, so do you wanna talk about your terrible writing partner in school? Or “yellow press”? Or maybe the topic of the article, which isn’t journalism in the slightest? Or how about my point, which was, again, that even bad writers have context, as opposed to an LLM which is just filling in the arbitrary patterns it’s programmed to delineate. Readability is not what I’m talking about.

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                    -21 year ago

                    Dude, what’s with aggression? We just having a conversation that floats along. I’m talking about general LLMs capabilities to write text - which are in my opinion comparable to human writing, since again - a lot of people lack the same things LLMs generated texts are lacking. And I had some examples. No idea what made you so upset.

    • So modern journalists were redundant all along?

      But yeah, the quality of what is passing as journalism now is often ridiculous. But the only way to combat this is by having editors that are knowledgable about topics. But it seemed editors were the first people laid off, when internet articles became a thing.

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        61 year ago

        So modern journalists were redundant all along?

        24 hours news cycle of online media creates junk journalism on new level. Good journalism needs time and can’t spit out news articles every minute of the day. Editors won’t help, because it’s just not possible to do good journalism on that scale. But jeh - in general with AI, the jobs will shift more to editing. Which will be extremely soul-draining, going though tons of AI generated bullshit