OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-E6oSeIMLw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250506-openai-gpt-55-goes-goblin-mode - podcast

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Here's some slobslicker whose stating model collapse is cool actually because human culture also has a bunch of weird quirks

https://davidoks.blog/p/language-models-are-weird-for-the

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that "so what if it's stupid, people are stupid too" well yeah but that's not the promise is it. The promise is PhDs on tap, not average Facebook poster

[-] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that “so what if it’s stupid, people are stupid too”

I have to assume that people who assert this "defense" will be incapable of designing tools that don't insult the user

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