• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    He lost his chat logs. I was going to mock him him for not backing up his work but I’m not sure I want to punch down on someone who considers his LLM chat logs research.

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      Wait wait wait. ALL of his research was in his chat logs in chat gpt‽ So NONE of his research was outside of chat gpt.

      I’m not sure it’s meaningful to call that research

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      Same for me but the reason is different

      … I don’t want to punch down someone for not using backups while I probably have a lot stored on sites and ready to be wiped accidentally

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    ChatGPT’s chat history isn’t “carefully structured academic work”.
    He basically used the 0/0/0 backup strategy, with not even one instance of his data saved anywhere.

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      As someone who knows a decent bit about machine learning, I can say Dr. Collier seems to know very little of how it works on a technical level, which presents such a beautiful contrast when I’m watching her be fucking dead-on about its societal consequences. Seeing someone who isn’t familiar with the field but still knows what they’re talking about is so cathartic in a subject strewn with misconceptions from laypeople. Angela’s integrity is really admirable; you can tell that critical thinking is a virtue to her and that she takes a lot of care not to overstep into areas she doesn’t understand.

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    He disabled the feature because he “wanted to see whether I would still have access to all of the model’s functions if I did not provide OpenAI with my data.”

    Well I guess you found out

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    But now you can also question the validity of his papers, the validity of his educational value in general, and, if you do research, the safety issues of having no contingency plans in case an hypothesis fails…