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1. in_absentia · 1790086050 · focus · HN ↗

   So OpenAI is not a believer in recursive self-improvement after all?

   1. jrflo · 1790087352 · focus · HN ↗

      Read the article, that's not what this is about. Title is clickbait, they fired contractors for using AI to label data when the whole point of labeling data is to distill human knowledge into weights, not distill weights into weights.

      1. in_absentia · 1790088685 · focus · HN ↗

         You're replying to a joke, and yes, that's all it's about. For all the tales of rapid self-improvement, all labs are real careful not to taint their precious training sets with anything that comes out of their systems. Website reputation modeling, fingerprints in generated text, firing contractors that rely on AI.

         I've been told on HN about a year ago that the era of scraping is over and that it's all AI-training-AI now. My web server logs and stories like that disagree.

         1. torginus · 1790095076 · focus · HN ↗

            I wonder if that's why AI sounds so wooden - so that they can clearly distinguish AI generated text from manmade.

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