nightwatch_admin comments on Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pattern recognition and “generative” ai are 2 completely different things. One is helpful tool with limited capabilities , the other is an overhyped markov chain that uses humongous amounts of energy and steals humans’ creative works.

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[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It is my understanding that the advances in classifier models were and are inexorably linked to generative models. Wasn't Deepdream a fairly crude inversion of existing classifier models?

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[–] aio@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're totally misunderstanding the context of that statement. The problem of classifying an image as a certain animal is related to the problem of generating a synthetic picture of a certain animal. But classifying an image of as a certain animal is totally unrelated to generating a natural-language description of "information about how to distinguish different species". In any case, we know empirically that these LLM-generated descriptions are highly unreliable.

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