I really despise how Claude’s creators and users are turning the definition of “skill” from “the ability to use [learned] knowledge to enhance execution” into “a blurb of text that [usefully] constrains a next-token-predictor”.
I guess, if you squint, it’s akin to how biologists will talk about species “evolving to fit a niche” amongst themselves or how physicists will talk about nature “abhorring a vacuum”. At least they aren’t talking about a fucking product that benefits from hype to get sold.
Stuff like that doesn’t always work though, at least on free versions in my experience. I use Ai to write flowery emails to people to sound nice when I normally wouldn’t bother and I used it to negotiate buying my car. I would continually tell it not to use - dashes while writing emails. And inevitably after 1 answer it would go back to using them.
Maybe paid versions are different but on free ones you have to continually correct it.
Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too
Wikipedia just sold the rights to use Wikipedia for AI training to Microsoft and openai…
How exactly does that work? Wikipedia does not “own” the content on the website, it’s all CC-BY licensed.
It’s getting scraped anyway. So why not get some money from it?
Seeing as OpenAI struggled to make its AI avoid the em dash and still hasn’t entirely managed to do it, I’m not too worried.
You have to understand that their public facing product is not the same as the one they allow enterprise or state actors to use.
They benefit from public thinking they have these stupid limitations, gives them more space to curate their product offerings where the real money is made.
