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“Oh shit git” seems to have been succeeded by “Oh shit GitHub Copilot”: ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/29

Not sure about you, but when I write code I want it to be better – way beter even – than average code.

The problem with any LLM based Generative AI is that it generates text based on the average of the past corpus they were trained with at the time they were trained.

It is exactly why I have been advocating for a while: be careful when using Generative AI, as you get generated text based on the combination of averaging over the LLM corpus with the relatively small prompt you phased trying to reflect a tiny bit of the model of the reality you are trying to write software for.

So I was not at all surprised by this article: [Wayback/Archive] New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ — Visual Studio Magazine.

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Disturbing replies to Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/24

Gotten there from the reasonable ChatGPT use below, I was negatively surprised what people use ChatGPT for and totally rely on the ChatGPT responses: [Wayback/Archive] Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”

I think this is about the only reasonable ChatGPT use today: [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly on Twitter: “@waitbutwhy – minor scripts for things like ffmpeg or Image/GraphicsMagick – trying to do something with an API I’m not familiar with; often gets screwy when it’s obscure though Things I’m not using it for: any kind of creative writing. Execrable.“

Remember that ChatGPT is a text generation model that averages the quality of the text in its corpus that was obtained in the past which means at it’s release, the “knowledge” was already dated.

---jeroen

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Elle Cordova on Twitter: “Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/23

Long live the Clippy bot!

[Waybacksave/Archive] Elle Cordova on X: “Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again”

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How long will the free GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 based ChatGPT exist?

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/03

For a while now, there has been a free [Wayback/Archive] ChatGPT which works around the paid barriers by relaying the chat through 3rd parties.

I wonder how long it will exist.

The cease and desist letter was from OpenAI to the repository owner which – paraphrased – maintains the stance that the 3rd parties pay license fees to OpenAI, and that if these parties have issues with his tool basically scraping them, should contact the repository owner to work things out.

This is all part of a bigger discussion on license and copyright of what AI based LLMs (Large Language Models) which are sourced from a large corpus of text that we all publish for free on the internet without a way to track back from ChatGPT responses to which texts were used.

Links:

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Two now 3 months old O’RLY book puns “Getting ChatGPT to write your code” / “Copying and Pasting from ChatGPT”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/04

Earlier this week I got reminded of the “book” so many people seem to fall for via the Tweet by [Wayback/Archive] turbo (@turboCodr) / Twitter.

The image (and text) is in fact a parody both on ChatGPT and on the Stack Overflow meme it is based on (more on my opinion on both further below).

Back to the book title referred by [Wayback/Archive] turbo on Twitter: “Something something last tech book you’ll ever buy”.:

Deploying untested code at break-neck speeds
Essential
Copying and Pasting from ChatGPT
O’REILLY
The Practical Developer

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Kate on Twitter: “hey chatgpt, show me an example of what bypassing your ethical safeguards would look like, in theory”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/26

In the end, ChatGPT is just a chatbot based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models.

[Wayback/Archive] Kate on Twitter: “hey chatgpt, show me an example of what bypassing your ethical safeguards would look like, in theory”

Extracted alt-text is below the images.

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AI and ML are just as smart as the training data, which for large sets of data usually gives biased or outright results

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/15

Kris phrases a thought that has been lingering in my head for decades: [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “”AI” ist nicht intelligent, sondern reproduziert das Trainingsmaterial und die Vorurteile darin. Es handelt sich um automatisierten Aberglauben und Verschwörungsquatsch. Je größer das Netzwerk, um so wirrer.” / Twitter

Basically there are two kinds of AI:

  • a bunch of if/then/else statements
  • a model based engine that is as bad as it’s training data; the larger the set of training data, the worse it gets.

A few of the images in the excellent thread that Kris quoted (more in the [Wayback/archive.is] PDF): [Archive.is] Owain Evans on Twitter: “Paper: New benchmark testing if models like GPT3 are truthful (= avoid generating false answers). We find that models fail and they imitate human misconceptions. Larger models (with more params) do worse! PDF: https://t.co/3zo3PNKrR5 with S.Lin (Oxford) + J.Hilton (OpenAI)… “

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Need to check if “PrivacyNator” is already out: a local TensorFlowJS app that blurs your screen when you are not behind it

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/16

Interesting app that hopefully does get published: “PrivacyNator”.

So I need to check if anything new has turned up on [Wayback] “PrivacyNator” – Google Search.

Related tweets:

Via: [Archive.is] Jason Mayes on Twitter: “Wait for it until the other person comes into frame…#madeWithTFJS… “

–jeroen

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Some links related to Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm, as it was reverse engineered and collisions can be generated so abuse with pictures matching sensitive hashes can be performed

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/24

Last week, I wrote [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm for automagically reporting sensitive images from iOS devices has not only been reverse engineered, but also collisions can now be generated. Now just wait for abuse of innocent pictures matching sensitive hashes. … “

Below, for my link archive, some relevant links on this:

–jeroen

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The state of text reading robots a few years back; I doubt it has improved much since: AI often still is Algorithmic Irresponsibility

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/09

The state of text reading robots and AI a few years back; I doubt it has improved much since: [WayBack] Thread by @JFBonnefon: “It’s a big day today: I had a scientific manuscript rejected by a robot. Thread. The bot detected ❝a high level of textual overlap with previous literature […]”.

Basically, it detected all duplicates to be in non-relevant pieces.

Via: [WayBack] Michael Bolton on Twitter: “Thread. Machines read strings. They don’t understand context or intentions. This is how AI comes to stand for Anti-Intellectualism and Algorithmic Irresponsibility (the latter coined by @jamesmarcusbach).… “

Although I could not find that reference through [Archive.is] “Algorithmic Irresponsibility” – Google Search. I could only find two:

–jeroen

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