AI Megathread
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@Roz There’s also the case where someone might have set up a robots.txt file to reject the robots, but it would still be visible to people. I have done that, for example. You wouldn’t necessarily know if it can be scraped or not.
I’d personally have some real reservations introducing someone else’s writing to the great chatbot in the sky.
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Good points all around. I’m going to think on it and maybe just give summaries and bulletpoints going forward instead of full logs. Never really thought about it this way and I appreciate the feedback and food for thought.
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@InkGolem said in AI Megathread:
I never share a scene in progress, and I only share ones that are publicly viewable on the internet.
Publicly viewable doesn’t mean “use for whatever you want” though. By feeding scenes into the GenAI databanks, you’re allowing the written work of your fellow RPers to be leveraged to generate other AI slop and put other writers out of business. It’s feeding the machine. That’s the harm of which I speak.
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@Faraday Point absolutely taken. This conversation has, in a rare instance that I can’t recall seeing on the internet in many years, changed my understanding and stance on this.
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@InkGolem I appreciate you having an open mind about it.
ETA: Also this is an example where it MIGHT theoretically be possible to find an ethical LLM to do what you need, with a private model so the data never becomes fodder for the LLM in the sky. The mainstream models like ChatGPT are just not that tool.
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@Faraday Absolutely. I am always willing to learn and I am willing to admit when I don’t have the expertise to make a good call and adjust accordingly.
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Whelp, now to add ‘Please don’t feed my scenes into an LLM’ to my +finger, too…
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Notepad doesn’t need Copilot.
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@Hobbie I am glad that it has that “you didn’t save this but we’ve kept it in the buffer for you” when files weirdly decide to open in notepad instead of notepad++. Which isn’t AI, but is neat.
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@Pavel that is a genuine QoL feature I use daily.
But I don’t need to have Copilot/Gemini/whatever advertised to me every time I open something that isn’t a video game.
I don’t even read the AWS roadmaps anymore because it’s endless updates to Q and nothing about bringing their existing functionality out of minimum-viable-product stage.
AI has its effective areas of use, but it is far narrower than what has been marketed and sold.
