Fear tinged with giddy excitement lingers in the air around
chatgpt3.5.
Do not under any circumstances interface with chatgpt or anything
resembling or utilising it. If you want to have it, download the MIT
(ish) licensed GPT2 from Microsoft Github
https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
and its academic publication (Amazon Cloudfront)
d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language-models.pdf
There is also its low quality dataset (web links to outside reddit
posted on reddit for a few years) and the retrospective leading into
gpt3:
https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/
Now if you wanted GPT, you have it. Due to the MIT license, when
openai drop public access to gpt-2, other people can freely share it.
GPT3 (chatgpt) has not been licensed to you, meaning it is
all-rights-reserved. Consider the chatgpt-pro and other test products.
Single ply toilet-paper is worthless, however neither the expensive
machinery nor the raw fibre to manufacture it are available to you. If
you interact with a public toilet, you will experience single ply
toilet-paper.
The machinery is enterprise graphics cards - able to sequentially
distribute low-quality processing tasks amoungst lots of low-quality
processors, having built-in timing heuristics and memory caches that
can be used with some efficiency for this purpose.
The low quality fibre is a lifetime of invasive and encompassing
spying on you personally and almost every other person. Doing this to
people is a clear crime with the cost born by each victim. Imagine a
classic job-application scenario. On one side is a business with some
government contract, and on the other side is you putting your best
foot forward hoping to be hired rather than the business tilting to an
international corporate effective sub-contract.
Now remember your rival has detailed data (erroneously remarketed as
anonymous metadata) on every second of your life. What you watch is
broadcast by your rival. Your choices of posts to read online
throughout your life were selected by your rival. Your every tic and
product purchase, your mouse movements, what websites you visit, when,
for how long and where you eat, with whom, what bathrooms you use and
how you walk there, video and audio recordings you were caught in,
though you can't even remember all of these for the past week, for
your entire life, are owned and archived by your rival.
And it's not just you. Your rival has everything on the person
interviewing you as well. Their boss, coworker, love interest, the
shareholders. Your love interest - or what would have been your love
interest had they not been pulled away. Parents and siblings, all of
whom creepily talk about how much they love and appreciate your rival
every moment of their lives.
The interview outcome left something to be desired (for you and your
interviewer as well actually).
But it wasn't just this job interview. This scenario is being replayed
every single moment of your life. And everyone else's. People in their
early mid twenties have never even touched a world without it.
Things are bad.
