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@ -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