RE: Press the Any Key
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Text generated from AI that is designed to learn patterns and structures of language from given data and then uses that to create responses to prompts is definitely not plagiarism.
That said, for some reason, as far as I know even developers don't understand, ChatGPT sometimes takes whole paragraphs and mixes them into generated content. In which case that is plagiarism. This is a bug, not a feature.
The important difference here is that ChatGPT can and is creating new content no matter how low effort it is. It can "invent" words and assign them meaning that aren't even a part of its data set which, at least to me, proves this point effortlessly.
We asked it to write a sales pitch... While it was able to write in natural language well, it was also taking content almost directly from available marketing material and content that both of us know quite well.
I'm really not sure what you expected here. I get the sense from these arguments that people think they aren't "copying" material they learned from, that their sentences aren't structured similarly (in some cases exactly) to people they most frequently talk to or follow their work. Just by saying that you know that particular material quite well, it means that it has a huge influence on the way you go about it too.
Just like a game, each type of work has its own set of rules and objectives. In order to succeed, it is important to learn these rules and understand what is expected of you. Playing the game of work right involves not only meeting expectations, but also striving to excel and exceed them. This can require a combination of skill, effort, and strategy. However, playing the game of work wrong can have negative consequences, such as poor performance. This applies to sales pitches too, of course.
What I like about the usage of AI, is it is raising questions of what is valuable, something that has to happen going forward.
From all AI talk, this is the most important question people don't really delve into. As we already know. When some invention automates or greatly boosts the productivity of a specific task, and if we have an abundance of material to do the task that task becomes less valuable.
Fully hand-off AI-generated texts will very quickly become the floor of writing skills. Any writing that isn't more interesting, creative, engaging, etc. than that kind of writing won't be worth much.
However, whether it is going to be a tool that improves us, or one that enslaves us through our own laziness and complacency, is the question.
To me, the answer is plainly obvious. My answer is no. Because technology itself never made us lazy. The abundance of food and shelter, and safety in general makes us lazy. Some people when they come from work just want to lay on the couch the rest of the day and watch TV. Would they be able to do it without the things listed above? I don't think so.
Posting that text into Hive for rewards though, is plagiarism, right?
I wrote some of the lines it used ;D
And this is exactly the point. I can add and subtract quite well, I do not consider myself a mathematician. Using AI to generate my texts, wouldn't make me a content creator. As I have written, proof of person and trusted sources, as well as ownership, are the future. If you don't own your skill, it isn't yours.
Some people don't have jobs to come from - they just watch TV.
Absolutely no.
So what? You think you are the original source of your thoughts, think again? Most people would disagree.
These people will use the bottom line of the tech, the same as people use a calculator to calculate 212x13.
Your points are as weak as they can be. I'm not saying that to belittle you or anything it just seems that you didn't give it as much thought as you could. It just sounds like your emotions cloud your judgment here. Like your skill aren't as unique as you would want. The reality is that most of the writing skills are going to get replaced as much as people doing manual calculations were replaced when the first electronic calculators were replacing humans (we are talking about hundreds of thousands here) and you don't like it. But that doesn't matter. It is happening, and we need to prepare instead of arguing. These half baked arguments are just waste of our time.
I just want to add.
Something you don't want to get rewarded doesn't have to be plagiarism. If you don't see the effort you shouldn't vote or should even downvote, right? Although we can all see posts (not too many but still) on the hot page that are low effort yet these rules aren't applied to them. So I doubt AI content will get a different treatment depending on the user posting it.