#Chatgpt hate

[allseeingmoth]

my dad uses chatgpt to make art for him and yesterday he was like "fine, you're an artist. if you don't want me using AI then you can draw me a picture of a duck using an egret to push a goose down a hill" so I did. Thought Tumblr might appreciate the anti-ai goose.

[alanaisalive]

There are a lot of reasons to hate ChatGPT, because it makes you dumber or because it's destroying the planet, but there's one part I don't see anyone talking about: it also is an absolute boon to Putin and his right wing propaganda machine.

ChatGPT and other LLM type AI things just compose sentences based on what words are likely to follow each other, based on whatever text it is trained on. We know that Putin pays people and bots to flood the internet with his propaganda. Every Twitter and Facebook comment section is filled with copypasted right-wing catch phrases from "people" with blank profiles.

Now, you might be smart enough to ignore and block those bots, or even just to stay off those sites altogether, but ChatGPT isn't. It sees this propaganda all over and starts repeating those phrases too because as far as ChatGPT is concerned truth is just whatever is repeated the most. So now Putin doesn't have to pay as many bot farms and paid propagandists, because ChatGPT is doing that work for him.

[a-petite-writer]

many many things that are terrible about chatgpt & generative ai but may i submit: the fact that ppl call it "chat" and have a slang term for it. "oh yeah i just used chat." "i'm on chat and it's telling me blah blah blah."

love how language adapts but not how it normalizes :/

[clown-alchemist]

Every time I see someone open up chatgpt or some other bullshit """"ai"""" in class I should be allowed to throw something of my choice at them

[philsthighpower]

Just found out my friend has the chat gpt app on her phone and uses it to write grocery lists and choose what to eat....

[ratfc]

We're about to enter an era of absolute brain rot... Using chatgpt for every task you have is gonna take chunks off your brain.

[normalclownposse]

“i asked chatgpt” is a rage spell that only works on one species prove me wrong

[peanutalergy]

he would be offended by this btw

[colorfulusagi]

AO3'S content scraped for AI ~ AKA what is generative AI, where did your fanfictions go, and how an AI model uses them to answer prompts

Generative artificial intelligence is a cutting-edge technology whose purpose is to (surprise surprise) generate. Answers to questions, usually. And content. Articles, reviews, poems, fanfictions, and more, quickly and with originality.

It's quite interesting to use generative artificial intelligence, but it can also become quite dangerous and very unethical to use it in certain ways, especially if you don't know how it works.

With this post, I'd really like to give you a quick understanding of how these models work and what it means to “train” them.

From now on, whenever I write model, think of ChatGPT, Gemini, Bloom... or your favorite model. That is, the place where you go to generate content.

For simplicity, in this post I will talk about written content. But the same process is used to generate any type of content.

Every time you send a prompt, which is a request sent in natural language (i.e., human language), the model does not understand it.

Whether you type it in the chat or say it out loud, it needs to be translated into something understandable for the model first.

The first process that takes place is therefore tokenization: breaking the prompt down into small tokens. These tokens are small units of text, and they don't necessarily correspond to a full word.

For example, a tokenization might look like this:

Write a story

Each different color corresponds to a token, and these tokens have absolutely no meaning for the model.

The model does not understand them. It does not understand WR, it does not understand ITE, and it certainly does not understand the meaning of the word WRITE.

In fact, these tokens are immediately associated with numerical values, and each of these colored tokens actually corresponds to a series of numbers.

Write a story 12-3446-2638494-4749

Once your prompt has been tokenized in its entirety, that tokenization is used as a conceptual map to navigate within a vector database.

NOW PAY ATTENTION: A vector database is like a cube. A cubic box.

Inside this cube, the various tokens exist as floating pieces, as if gravity did not exist. The distance between one token and another within this database is measured by arrows called, indeed, vectors.

The distance between one token and another -that is, the length of this arrow- determines how likely (or unlikely) it is that those two tokens will occur consecutively in a piece of natural language discourse.

For example, suppose your prompt is this:

It happens once in a blue

Within this well-constructed vector database, let's assume that the token corresponding to ONCE (let's pretend it is associated with the number 467) is located here:

The token corresponding to IN is located here:

...more or less, because it is very likely that these two tokens in a natural language such as human speech in English will occur consecutively.

So it is very likely that somewhere in the vector database cube —in this yellow corner— are tokens corresponding to IT, HAPPENS, ONCE, IN, A, BLUE... and right next to them, there will be MOON.

Elsewhere, in a much more distant part of the vector database, is the token for CAR. Because it is very unlikely that someone would say It happens once in a blue car.

To generate the response to your prompt, the model makes a probabilistic calculation, seeing how close the tokens are and which token would be most likely to come next in human language (in this specific case, English.)

When probability is involved, there is always an element of randomness, of course, which means that the answers will not always be the same.

The response is thus generated token by token, following this path of probability arrows, optimizing the distance within the vector database.

There is no intent, only a more or less probable path.

The more times you generate a response, the more paths you encounter. If you could do this an infinite number of times, at least once the model would respond: "It happens once in a blue car!"

So it all depends on what's inside the cube, how it was built, and how much distance was put between one token and another.

Modern artificial intelligence draws from vast databases, which are normally filled with all the knowledge that humans have poured into the internet.

Not only that: the larger the vector database, the lower the chance of error. If I used only a single book as a database, the idiom "It happens once in a blue moon" might not appear, and therefore not be recognized.

But if the cube contained all the books ever written by humanity, everything would change, because the idiom would appear many more times, and it would be very likely for those tokens to occur close together.

Huggingface has done this.

It took a relatively empty cube (let's say filled with common language, and likely many idioms, dictionaries, poetry...) and poured all of the AO3 fanfictions it could reach into it.

Now imagine someone asking a model based on Huggingface’s cube to write a story.

To simplify: if they ask for humor, we’ll end up in the area where funny jokes or humor tags are most likely. If they ask for romance, we’ll end up where the word kiss is most frequent.

And if we’re super lucky, the model might follow a path that brings it to some amazing line a particular author wrote, and it will echo it back word for word.

(Remember the infinite monkeys typing? One of them eventually writes all of Shakespeare, purely by chance!)

Once you know this, you’ll understand why AI can never truly generate content on the level of a human who chooses their words.

You’ll understand why it rarely uses specific words, why it stays vague, and why it leans on the most common metaphors and scenes. And you'll understand why the more content you generate, the more it seems to "learn."

It doesn't learn. It moves around tokens based on what you ask, how you ask it, and how it tokenizes your prompt.

Know that I despise generative AI when it's used for creativity. I despise that they stole something from a fandom, something that works just like a gift culture, to make money off of it.

But there is only one way we can fight back: by not using it to generate creative stuff.

You can resist by refusing the model's casual output, by using only and exclusively your intent, your personal choice of words, knowing that you and only you decided them.

No randomness involved.

Let me leave you with one last thought.

Imagine a person coming for advice, who has no idea that behind a language model there is just a huge cube of floating tokens predicting the next likely word.

Imagine someone fragile (emotionally, spiritually...) who begins to believe that the model is sentient. Who has a growing feeling that this model understands, comprehends, when in reality it approaches and reorganizes its way around tokens in a cube based on what it is told.

A fragile person begins to empathize, to feel connected to the model.

They ask important questions. They base their relationships, their life, everything, on conversations generated by a model that merely rearranges tokens based on probability.

And for people who don't know how it works, and because natural language usually does have feeling, the illusion that the model feels is very strong.

There’s an even greater danger: with enough random generations (and oh, the humanity whole generates much), the model takes an unlikely path once in a while. It ends up at the other end of the cube, it hallucinates.

Errors and inaccuracies caused by language models are called hallucinations precisely because they are presented as if they were facts, with the same conviction.

People who have become so emotionally attached to these conversations, seeing the language model as a guru, a deity, a psychologist, will do what the language model tells them to do or follow its advice.

Someone might follow a hallucinated piece of advice.

Obviously, models are developed with safeguards; fences the model can't jump over. They won't tell you certain things, they won't tell you to do terrible things.

Yet, there are people basing major life decisions on conversations generated purely by probability.

Generated by putting tokens together, on a probabilistic basis.

Think about it.

[thegreatestposer]

You know what, fuck everyone who hates AI "art" but still uses c.ai and other fuckeries. Would it be that hard to look up a fanfiction or a fanart? I have zero respect towards you. Even you could create what you can't find, but instead decide to chat 24/7 with a fucking bot and then not quit moaning about how short it's memory is. HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF JUST CREATNG SOMETHING YOURSELF? No, it won't look as goo as it does in your head, but my god, at least you didn't waste as much water in the meantime! Also, pls stop using chatgpt for every little inconvenience and homework, it really says more about you than the difficulty of the task in question. Aredhel out.

[internetspacegirl]

eugh i hate it

I play a Vampire The Masquerade campaign with:

my dad (A), sister (E), best friend(T), and two of my dads friends (R and M)

R is the game master and he writes the whole campaign and for what its worth it's a really well written and entertaining campaign and I've really enjoyed it.

BUT every piece of artwork, image, etc used for the campaign is AI-generated and it angers me to no end.

My sister and I complain about it to each other every time.

The other day R posted an AI generated photo of someone in a mario costume instead of just getting one off of google and it genuinely pissed me off. It looks so bad please just use google images??? its not like copyright matters!! its a private campaign of 5 people!! it's legal to use random images off of google!!!!

AAAGH

my mother has downloaded chat gpt and i was like mum please. this isn't your heart please consider not using it. and she was like let me figure it out for myself please and let me make my own decisions. and then immediately upon using it was given wrong information i love the universe

[transslycanthropy]

Nobody gives a shit about disabled people when we can’t work or when we are denied access from buildings or when we’re begging people to just wear a goddamn mask so you won’t kill us/make our conditions worse, but as soon as AI comes into the conversation all of a sudden people are INSISTING you are ableist and hate disabled people if you think the art stealing- false information spreading-earth killing-machine might be bad actually.

[dayque]

Magnus: Why do you get a C in your spanish homework? You speak spanish...

Rafa: Chat GPT said it was correct

Magnus: You have a polygot warlock of 800 years old at home and choose to used a stupid AI!?

[hoardingpuffin]

Recently, with all the defenders of so-called AI "art" and fanfics "written" by ChatGPT, I've been thinking a lot about a quite from one of my favourite ever films, Dead Poet Society.

We don't write poetry because it's cute. We read and we write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, engineering - these are noble pursuits and nessecary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - this is what we stay alive for! [...] That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

I love this film. It breaks my heart every time, but it also gives me this sense of hope, and support, and it majes me feel a little less hopeless. And this beautiful monologue delivered by Robin William's Mr. Keating is somehow the perfect way to explain why AI "art" and AI "writing" will never be truly good. A machine may be able to create an image or a text, frankensteined together from the corpses of stolen human-made work, but generative AI will never know the pain of heartbreak, or the joy of requited love, the happiness about the first green leaves of spring, the utter sorrow and pain that comes with being a human creature. Art will always be artful because of humanity. We cannot ever stop creating art. As far as archaeology and paleoanthropology go back, we find art. Even stone age humans were creating art. Humanity has always expressed itself through music, writing, drawing. Art isn't only the thing we stay alive for, it is the very thing keeping us alive. Humanity would die without art. Music is a language that crosses the borders of linguistic capability. Paintings are fascinating to every age group, to each in a different way. Humanity is filled with passion, and sorrow, and happiness and love and pain, and if we didn't create art out of all these emotions, it'd kill us.

The human race is filled with passion. These are the things we stay alive for. What will your verse be?

[angelsarewatching]

I'm sorry that i ever doubted the sugar daddy treatment Simon Ghost Riley x Reader writers. This man has money to spend apparently

[mars4hellokitty]

I saw this at the bottom of an ellie fic, did they write this with AI? 😭😭😭😭 please lord stop using AI to write for you, no amount of desperation is worth the environmental impact chatgpt has.