From 7fcbe64c841c3d108979faf8d91d27221cac26f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elia Robyn Lake Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] sunset: rephrase a couple of paragraphs --- SUNSET.md | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/SUNSET.md b/SUNSET.md index f926740..444e858 100644 --- a/SUNSET.md +++ b/SUNSET.md @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ output crops up everywhere. As one example, [Philip Shapira reports](https://pshapira.net/2024/03/31/delving-into-delve/) that ChatGPT -(OpenAI's popular brand of language model circa 2024) is obsessed with the word -"delve" in a way that people never have been, and caused its overall frequency -to increase by an order of magnitude. +(OpenAI's popular brand of generative language model circa 2024) is obsessed +with the word "delve" in a way that people never have been, and caused its +overall frequency to increase by an order of magnitude. ## Information that used to be free became expensive @@ -61,7 +61,15 @@ generative AI sucks up all the air in the room and gets all the money. It's rare to see NLP research that doesn't have a dependency on closed data controlled by OpenAI and Google, two companies that I already despise. -I don't want to work on anything that could be confused with generative AI, +wordfreq was built by collecting a whole lot of text in a lot of languages. +That used to be a pretty reasonable thing to do, and not the kind of thing +someone would be likely to object to. Now, the text-slurping tools are mostly +used for training generative AI, and people are quite rightly on the defensive. +If someone is collecting all the text from your books, articles, Web site, or +public posts, it's very likely because they are creating a plagiarism machine +that will claim your words as its own. + +So I don't want to work on anything that could be confused with generative AI, or that could benefit generative AI. OpenAI and Google can collect their own damn data. I hope they have to pay a