Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic.
Archive link, so you don’t have to visit Substack: https://archive.is/hJIWk
Here’s a basically fully automated service where you can generate a shitty book for $200. You can even have it printed as a paperback for more useless waste or have it AI narrated as a shitty audiobook.
I hate everything about it.
How much time and power per page?
Then, it seems like Meta trained Llama with copyright protected books without permission, so the model might stop being free at any moment.
They’re not going to make me pay for something that’s already on my computer
If you already have the computer for other reasons, such as gaming, are you paying for it to use it for a LLM? The limiting factor isn’t raw power either, it’s VRAM size. A GTX 1080 with 8Gb is capable of running some models. But an RTX 3060 12Gb can be bought new for really cheap and is more than enough for most people’s use at home. Raw GPU power only helps with the time it takes, but even if it took 12-24 hours, well, do you want it fast or do you want it cheap?
There’s more details in this reddit thread, sorry for linking the hell site: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/12kclx2/what_are_the_most_important_factors_in_building_a/
Amazon has been having problems with books written by LLMs for almost a year, and it doesn’t appear to do anything about it. For example:
AI Detection Startups Say Amazon Could Flag AI Books. It Doesn’t (Sep 2023)
A new nightmare for writers shows how AI deepfakes could upend the book industry—and Amazon isn’t helping (August 2023)
These are just two examples, you’ll find many more. But people keep buying there and support this business.
[Edit typo.]
From your second link…
The story comes from author Jane Friedman, a veteran writer and academic who woke up to find AI-generated books listed under her name on Amazon.
I don’t think AI is the problem here. It’s that I can write a book, claim George R. R. Martin is the author and Amazon won’t fact check me.
Amazon also sell faked AI products if you search for (bizarrely)…
“goes against OpenAI use policy”
Try that string and see what happens.
Those aren’t faked products. Those are shitty products that have a shitty attempt at giving them descriptions.
I do almost all of my reading on a kindle - one of the ones with ads on the lock screen, and for months now all of the ads have been for this type of no-effort, low-quality, AI-generated garbage. Amazon clearly doesn’t give a fuck as long as they make money.
Now? They’ve had the option almost since they first started selling them. It’s like $10 to remove them permanently. Honestly didn’t realize anyone would get the one with ads on purpose but hey, I didn’t think people would use Twitter when I first heard about it either.
I just sent them a message asking them to disable the ads on the kindle I had recently purchased, and they did so for free, no root needed. That was a few years ago though, so I doubt they do that anymore…
They have sold two ‘tiers’ of kindles for awhile, the one with ads on the lock screen is discounted.
It’s not my favorite thing but iirc the lock screen is supposed to be the only place with ads.
Yes, and in fairness to them that’s how it has been. The ads are only for stuff sold on the kindle store too, so not like you’re seeing ads for hot singles in your area or some shit on your kindle. It’s only now that the store is flooded with this AI garbage that the ads have become annoying.
I don’t know how it is now, but the older ones you could root and disable the ads.
Ew, substack…
Yeah sorry - edited OP and added archive link, so no one needs to hit substack servers.
Pardon my ignorance but I’m OOTL- why is substack a bad thing? ( I didn’t know of its existence before this post)
They recently refused to remove pro-Nazi content from their site, claiming that doing so doesn’t make the problem go away so therefore there’s no point in trying.
Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
Quite a few organizations and lots of individuals are now starting to migratev away from it and if any of the money made by visiting goes to Nazis, many of us would prefer to avoid the place when possible.
