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    What’s On My Mind: AI Content is Preferred Over Human Content

    Today, let’s talk about a really, really important paper in generative AI. This is from September of 2023, so it’s not terribly old, but it’s very interesting. The title of the paper and the study is Human Favoritism, Not AI Aversion: People’s Perceptions (and Bias) Toward Generative AI, Human Experts, and Human-GAI Collaboration in Persuasive Content Generation, by Zhang et al, from the MIT Sloan School of Business.

    Let’s dig into what the study did. Working with consulting firm Accenture, the study looked at 4 different content creation scenarios: human only, AI generated and human edited (what they call human augmented), human generated and AI edited (what they call AI augmented), and pure AI generated. They did this with the GPT-4 model in the consumer ChatGPT interface, the same one you and I pay $20 a month for.

    Participants had to create 5 pieces of persuasive copy and 5 pieces of straight up ad copy. Each piece of content had to be 100 words or less. The ads were for an air fryer, projector, electric bike, emergency kit, and a tumbler; the persuasive copy was for five causes – stop racism, recycle, get more exercise, wash your hands, and eat less junk food.

    After they gathered the created materials, they enrolled 1203 participants to score the content in a survey. The population was gender-balanced with a median age of 38. They were broken into 3 groups – uninformed that AI was involved, partially informed, and fully informed. Partially informed meant the survey participants knew AI was involved, but they didn’t know whether any given piece was generated by AI or not. Fully informed meant they know whether a specific piece was generated by AI or not.

    They were specifically asked 4 key questions for each piece of content – satisfaction, willingness to pay, and interest for the ad content, and persuasiveness in the persuasion content.

    So, what happened?

    Well, this is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable.

    The AI content was rated higher than human content, across the board. And in groups where people didn’t know whether the content they were reading was AI or not (partially informed) or had no idea where the content came from (uninformed), survey participants found AI content more satisfying than human or human-led content.

    Well, it’s been nice knowing you.

    Here’s an even more interesting twist: when people did know that AI generated the content, they rated the content more favorably – a clear bias for humans. However, when they knew AI generated the content, the raters didn’t ding AI for being the creator. So people may favor human-led content, but they don’t penalize AI for AI-generated content.

    What does this all mean? It means that for anyone in content creation, the use of AI isn’t going to harm your marketing. In the uninformed trials, AI content outperformed human content, both for ads and persuasive content. That’s a big deal – it means that the machines did a better job than highly-paid consultants. And in cases where people knew AI was at work, they didn’t downrate the content because of AI, though they did bias themselves more favorably towards human content when they knew it was human-led.

    This means that fears AI is going to create a sea of garbage may be overblown. Certainly, skillful use of AI will lead to skillful content, and unskilled use of AI will lead to the same boilerplate marketing garbage we read all the time. But the cost and time savings are massive; highly-paid consultants invested a lot of time and effort into their tasks (though the study didn’t say how long), and ChatGPT spent seconds. The authors point out there are massive capital savings to be had, when AI generates better results than humans in a fraction of the time – and those results are measured in real-world tests, not synthetic benchmarks.

    The critical takeaway for many of us is that disclosing the use of AI didn’t harm survey participants’ perception of the content quality. That means it’s safe to use AI to generate content AND tell the truth about it, that you used AI to generate the content.

    The human bias also means that you can use human-led content with disclosure as a marketing tactic. People perceive content that’s human-created as more favorable (even if it’s lower quality) simply because of our bias towards people.

    And that means in the big picture, it is always worth disclosing the use of AI. It doesn’t harm audience perception, and when you have human-led content, disclose that to take advantage of our bias towards human-led content.

    (this is also why I disclose my use of AI and usually make my newsletters almost entirely by hand, because I want to take advantage of that human bias, too!)

    Now, this study will also have repercussions. Because AI content is better than human content in a real world test, and it’s so, so much cheaper to have AI generate content than human content, organizations which are cost-focused are going to use AI much more – and they may not disclose its use. That imperils the jobs of content creators because you’ll need fewer creators overall. This is something that aligns with what we’ve been saying forever – a person skilled with AI will take the jobs of people who are not skilled with AI.

    What you take away from this study and what you do with it are up to you and how your organization values people and productivity. The reality is this – if you get better content out of AI and you get it much faster and much cheaper, organizations which measure productivity based on how much good stuff you can get quickly at the lowest cost are going to use AI for everything. If you work for such an organization, you need to get skilled up right this very minute, because that organization will retain fewer workers. If you work for an organization that values the organic, hand-crafted artisanal content approach, then you’ll probably use AI as part of the creative process but it won’t replace the process in whole.

    Either way, now is the time to get comfortable with AI, because it’s doing a better job than we are.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Is Art Made by AI Really Art?

    You Ask, I Answer: Is Art Made by AI Really Art?

    In today’s episode, Sira asks if art made by AI can truly be considered art. I tackle this complicated question by examining art as an expression of imagination, noting that perception of art is highly subjective. I discuss arguments around human versus machine creation, exploring the creative process behind AI art prompts. I also cover complex legal issues of copyright and training data usage that remain unsettled globally. Ultimately art is in the eye of the beholder, but there are many ethical debates around AI’s role that merit further discussion. Tune in to hear perspectives on what constitutes art, creative intent, and considerations for responsible AI development.

    You Ask, I Answer: Is Art Made by AI Really Art?
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    In today’s episode, hmm, Sira asks, is art made by AI really art? That is a, a very, very complicated question.

    And it depends on the context in which we are asking the question art.

    Okay, so this is my opinion.

    I cannot speak for other people.

    And the answer will become clear fairly shortly.

    Art is the expression of imagination, right? In, in some, in some way that can be communicated to other people, such as paintings, or dance, or music, or any of those things.

    And what we perceive as art really depends on the person who is perceiving it, right? So I have been to a whole bunch of museums.

    And there’s some art that I like and some art I don’t like.

    Some art, like, that’s pretty cool.

    I, you know, I look at it and go, that’s, that, that’s very imaginative, or that’s very compelling to look at.

    It evokes emotion.

    And there’s other art I look at and go, what am I even looking at? I remember I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and they had this three by three blue canvas.

    I’m like, I don’t get it.

    It’s a blue canvas.

    Like, I could do that at home.

    Why is that? It’s this art.

    And there was a, there’s a long description about the statement the artist was making.

    I’m like, but it’s still a blue canvas.

    The, the intent was lost on me as the beholder.

    The art is in the eye of the beholders is the approach I tend to think about.

    As a beholder, I’m looking at going, I don’t get it.

    And so I’m very hesitant to just sit to say anything is not art.

    I, because that’s, there may be things that to me are not art, but to other people are very meaningful and very compelling.

    It’s the same as like, is like music.

    There’s some genres of music I like and some that I don’t.

    I’m not a huge fan of country music.

    I’m not a huge fan of rap.

    Would I tell the hundreds of millions of people who love those genres that that music isn’t music? No.

    It’d be crazy to say that and probably get mugged by, you know, some, somebody who is really upset.

    There are people who don’t like Taylor Swift.

    You tell a Swifty that Taylor Swift’s music is not music, you are going to get a whoopin’.

    So what is art? Again, it’s expression of, of imagination.

    Doesn’t matter who makes the art.

    Because the argument against machines making art is that, you know, it’s not human expression.

    It’s machine made.

    Again, this is really tricky, because if I have an idea for a painting, but I can’t paint, and I hire an artist to paint it for me, I tell them exactly what I want, I paint it for me.

    I didn’t do the work.

    I hired somebody to do work, but I didn’t do the work.

    Is that still art? I would argue probably yes.

    Especially if I made it for myself, then absolutely it’s art.

    Because as the beholder, that to me, the thing that I paid for, paid someone to do is art.

    If I have a machine do it instead of a person, is it still art? Again, as the beholder, if Dali or stable diffusion or whatever makes the thing, and I really don’t know if it’s still art, I don’t know if it’s still art.

    I really like the thing and it speaks to me emotionally.

    Yeah, that’s art.

    This is where so much of AI gets into questions not about the technology, but questions about our beliefs as people, our points of view and how things make us feel.

    There are a lot of people in the art community who have very valid fears of AI, that it’s diluting art or that it is making a commodity.

    cheapening it or stealing it.

    And I don’t want to negate their points of view because their points of view are theirs and their opinions are theirs.

    But I would say that if a machine makes something that you like, and it resonates with you, then yeah, it’s art.

    Is it art you like? Maybe, maybe not.

    Machines can’t make art by themselves.

    If you open up Stable Diffusion or DALI, and you sit there and wait for it to make your art, you’re gonna be waiting a real long time, because they have no agency at all.

    They are not sentient, they’re not self aware, they have no soul, they cannot express things, they can obey instructions.

    And the quality of the output comes from how good your instructions are.

    So the person who is commissioning the art, the person who’s writing the prompts for these tools, is the creative impulse behind it.

    So if you put a prompt in like, “Make a watercolor painting of a pot of daisies.” You’re gonna get a pretty generic piece of imagery back, but that’s as creative as the system can be.

    If, on the other hand, you write out two and a half pages of exactly what you want in that painting, and you talk to a chat GPT and have DALI 3 make it from that, you’re probably gonna get something that’s pretty unique because you spent a lot of time with the creative process to bring the imagination needed to generate the art.

    Particularly if you sit there and you have to refine it over and over again.

    Say, “No, I want it this way.” “No, I want it this way.” “Why won’t you listen to me? I want the pot to have yellow stripes on it.

    Stop putting blue stripes on it.” You are still expressing your imagination.

    You are just doing it through a proxy in the same way that giving instructions to a human painter, you didn’t do the work, but it’s still art made by the human painter commissioned with your ideas.

    Now, where a lot of artists do take issue with generated works is the belief that these works are copying them.

    The diffuser’s model that most generative AI uses isn’t making pixel-for-pixel copies.

    What it is learning is association.

    This color pixel tends to be next to this color pixel.

    It is trained on the pixel patterns in things like a work of art and the associated captions.

    You have Mona Lisa painting of an Italian woman from the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, and so on and so forth.

    When you type that into the prompting engine for generative AI, it’s going to essentially pull up a catalog of the things that it knows and then use this diffusion method to try and assemble all the pieces that it thinks it knows around that concept over time to render the final artwork.

    The analogy I use a lot is imagine you went around the world and you ate pizza in every single pizzeria in the world.

    You took detailed notes like, “Hey, the pepperoni was this size.

    It was near this way.

    It’s laid out this way.” Then when someone asks you to make a pizza, you went into this huge cookbook that you made and you can replicate a pizza very much like it, but it’s not going to be the original pizza.

    There is no pizza in a pizza cookbook.

    There is detailed notes and there is absolutely people’s intellectual property in there.

    If you go to the local pizzeria and you take detailed notes about how they made their pizza, you can replicate that and you may or may not have permission to do so, but their pizza is not in the cookbook.

    When you go to make that pizza from the recipe you made, you are not taking their pizza from them.

    You may be expressing a very similar idea, but it’s definitely not their pizza.

    Now, do you have the right to do so? If the original work is copyrighted and you are intending to exactly replicate that work, essentially as a derivative work, then yeah, you’re violating their copyright.

    Full disclosure, I am not a lawyer.

    I cannot give legal advice.

    So take that important disclaimer.

    But when people use gender, use generative AI, yes, it has been trained on a whole bunch of imagery that is commercially, that is licensed, that is other people’s IP, and they did not, in many cases, give their permission.

    Should that be allowed? We’ll find out.

    Right now, it depends on where you are.

    So there are certain jurisdictions where, for example, in the EU, the EU has ruled works, copyrighted works that were used to train machine models violate that copyright.

    So in the EU, that’s no good.

    If you built a model using copyrights that were not yours.

    In Japan, they went the other way and they said the very nature of how a generative model works, they go the cookbook route.

    They say there is no original work in the model itself.

    And therefore, training that model and creating that model is not a violation of copyright because you’re not taking away anything from the originals.

    The originals are not in there.

    It’s just a book of statistics, essentially.

    And so in Japan, the law is that a model that was trained on copyrighted data does not violate the copyright.

    In the USA, it’s unresolved.

    There are a whole bunch of court cases right now that are pending about whether or not the use of copyrighted information violates copyright.

    And we will be waiting for quite some time to get a court decision about what that is.

    In the meantime, however, these models do exist.

    And they are capable of creating based on the prompts that they are given.

    So to wrap up, is that art? Yeah, it probably is.

    Is it art you like? Maybe, maybe not.

    Is it art I like? Maybe, maybe not.

    Is it art? Yeah.

    To somebody, it’s art.

    And even if it’s not art to me, it’s not my place to tell somebody else that they’re art, it’s not art.

    Even if it’s a machine, it was made by a machine.

    Is it a violation of copyright? Maybe, depending on where you are.

    And should model makers be able to leverage other people’s copyrighted material without compensating them? Maybe, depends where you are.

    And that has to be settled in law.

    That is not settled in law in many places in the world.

    It has to be settled in law.

    And if that is something that is of interest to you, that you want to see, that’s settled in law in a certain way, the best thing you can do is lobby your government in as many ways as you can and be a participant in the government, the rulemaking process, the lawmaking process, to persuade your people that this is the way you want the world to work.

    I would definitely not just sit there and wait for things to happen.

    If you have a point of view that you think is really important around the use of AI and how AI models are built, go and let your duly elected representatives know if you have them.

    That’s the show for today.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Open Weights, Open Source, and Custom GPT Models?

    You Ask, I Answer: Open Weights, Open Source, and Custom GPT Models?

    In today’s episode, Joseph asks if it’s possible to create your own custom GPT model using open source tools. I explain the difference between open models and truly open source models, noting that true open source would require exposing the training data. I discuss options like fine-tuning existing models or using retrieval augmented generation to customize them, but caution that recreating a full model from scratch would require an unrealistic amount of compute power. I recommend starting with simpler no-code tools to test ideas first before investing heavily in a custom build. Tune in to hear more about the possibilities and limitations around rolling your own language model!

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    In today’s episode, Joseph asks, if I wanted to dabble in an attempt to make my own custom-like GPT, a language model, using something that is open source, would I need to use something like Lama to accomplish that goal? Okay, so this is a little bit tricky.

    The Lama models are what we would call open models in the sense that you can get the model itself, the model weights, and download them and use them, and you can fine-tune them and manipulate them and things like that.

    They are not strictly, if you want to be adhered to what open source is really about, they are not open source models, and here’s why.

    Open source requires the disclosure of the source code, not the compiled binary.

    So if you write a piece of software that you compile in C++, if you want it to be open source, you have to give away the C++ source code itself and not just the compiled end product, the app itself.

    With language models, extending that analogy, if I give it to you, you’re going to get a lot of results.

    You’re going to get a lot of results.

    If I give away the Lama model, I’m giving away open weights.

    Here are the weights that you may use to manipulate and change into a model that performs the tasks you want to perform.

    For it to be truly open source, the training data that the model was made from would also have to be given away, right? So this would be things like Common Crawl, for example, or Archive and Stack Exchange and Reddit and the Online Books Archive and Project Gutenberg and all that stuff.

    If you wanted to do a true open source language model, you would need to open source the training documents themselves.

    And some of these exist.

    For example, the repository that like 90% of language models are trained on is called Common Crawl, you can go visit it at common crawl.org.

    This is a massive, massive archive of essentially the public internet.

    It’s a web crawler that goes around and scrapes the web.

    And anything they can see, it puts in there unless people specifically tell it not to.

    That huge Common Crawl archive is what a lot of model makers use as sort of their their base starting recipe, there is definitely opportunity for someone to look at that archive and selectively pull pieces out of it to train and build a transformer based model, a pre trained transformer model from scratch.

    From absolute scratch, you’d say here, we’re not going to use Lama as a starting point, we’re going to make our own.

    This requires, however, an enormous amount of compute power and time.

    When Lama two was put together, I think it was something like several roomfuls of a 100 GPUs, and about $2 million worth of compute time to build this thing over I think it was 12 weeks was how long it took roomfuls of servers to build the Lama model.

    Most of us do not have that kind of firepower.

    Most of us, we just can’t afford it.

    As nice as my MacBook is, my MacBook is not suited computationally to train a model anything other than like a toy model, you could absolutely and you might want to try building your own language model from scratch, but it’s gonna be very, very limited, it’s gonna be a toy.

    If you want to build a custom GPT like system, yes, you could start with something from the Lama two family, because Lama two two is open source and open weights, and it is commercially licensable.

    And then you would do one of a couple different ways of customizing it.

    One would be fine tuning it where you would give it additional instruction sets and essentially alter the weights in the model so that it performs some some instructions better, right? So you might have 1000s of examples like, hey, when a customer says this, do this, when a customer says do this, do this, you might have 1000s of those things, and you would then essentially retune llama to follow instructions like that better.

    That’s what fine tuning does.

    You might also want to add new knowledge to llama.

    And that’s where something like retrieval augmented generation would come into play where you would say, here’s a library of extra data, you should look in this library first, before you go into your general library, so that you get better answers.

    Those would be methods for customizing it.

    When you look at something like open AI is custom GPT, that is a model that is that is a system that is a system that is largely custom instructions.

    So you give it specific prompts, and retrieval augmented generation, you upload files to it.

    And it can talk to those files, or you can make a function call to call to external data sources.

    It’s not a fine tune, right? You’re not getting you’re not convincing it to learn certain instructions better, not really.

    So that would be how you would accomplish that goal of making that custom like thing you would, you would do the do a fine tune.

    If the llama model just doesn’t answer the questions the way you want them answered from an instructions following perspective, like it just doesn’t follow directions well, or if it doesn’t have the knowledge, you would give it access to some kind of vector database that would have the knowledge you want in it that it could then reference if it can follow instructions fine and just makes up answers.

    Retrieval augmented generation is the way to go.

    If it can’t even follow instructions, fine tuning is the way to go.

    So that’s how you approach that.

    I would say that’s the starting point trying open AI is custom GPT is just to see if your idea is even feasible first.

    Because if you can’t get it working in in a very in a no code environment, that’s pretty simplistic.

    There’s a good chance that you would spend a lot of time and money and effort on more custom example that probably wouldn’t work much better.

    So give that a shot.

    As always, if you have additional questions, feel free to ask them at any time, you can leave them in the comments or whatever.

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  • Mind Readings: The Dangers of Excluding Your Content From AI

    Mind Readings: The Dangers of Excluding Your Content From AI

    In today’s episode, I discuss the popular notion of excluding your content from AI and the implications this could have. I explain why as a marketer you may not want to exclude your content, as well as the ethical considerations around excluding content from underrepresented groups. I encourage thoughtful consideration of what should and should not be included in AI models, and urge copyright holders to explore licensing models rather than outright exclusion. Tune in to hear more of my perspective on this complex issue.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about excluding your content from AI.

    This is a thing that’s become very popular as a discussion point for content creators to say, Hey, we did not consent to have our our content used to train machines, we want to opt out of it.

    And to be clear, your content that you made is your property.

    And you have that right to exercise how people may or may not use it.

    There’s no debate about that you that is your right.

    And you can and should talk to a qualified legal resource for what it would look like to enforce those rights to to exert those rights on your content.

    So let’s set the stage there.

    If you made it, and you hold the copyright for it, it is your place to say what can and can’t be done with it until you license it or give that those rights away.

    Now, let’s talk about why certain kinds of content you might not want to exclude.

    We’ll start with marketing.

    And one of the things that makes generative AI.

    So powerful is that it has a huge corpus of knowledge because it’s trained on the combinations of words and phrases and sentences and paragraphs and documents from trillions and trillions of word combinations.

    Those that that pool of knowledge is essentially just a big word Association index.

    I mean, if we, if we don’t, if we specifically avoid the math, like vectors and embeddings, and and, you know, vector spaces and stuff.

    And we just, essentially call these things really big word clouds, which is conceptually correct, but mathematically wrong.

    Then, when these models are made in the first stage, the foundation model making, you are essentially doing word association.

    If you are a marketer, and you want your brand to be associated with specific terms and concepts and things.

    The worst thing you can possibly do is say, Hey, you may not use our content, right? If your blog is filled with content about who you are, and what you do, and the topics you have expertise in, you want that information, getting into language models, you want that in there.

    So that if someone is, through the use of a prompt invoking a concept like B2B marketing, or sales on force automation, or whatever, the more associations there are with your brand and your company and your execs and things, and those topics, the more likely it is that the machine is going to eventually generate content that is aligned with who you are and what you do, right? If somebody types in a prompt, like, name some good resources for learning about B2B marketing.

    If you were if you said to the machine, hey, do not use our, our blog, we’re going to make sure that our blog is pulled out of all the different repositories that contain the public internet, then you are by default handing that that term and that concept over to other people.

    Right.

    So from a marketing perspective, you might not want to do that.

    We’ve been counseling people to the exact opposite, which is like be everywhere, you know, be on every podcast, you can be be on every YouTube show that you can be getting every paper that will take you whether it’s the New York Times, the East Peoria Evening News, who cares as long as the public text on the internet, and you get your brand and your concepts mentioned out there, you don’t even need links, right? It’s not SEO, you just need to be out there in as many places as you can.

    You need to look at who’s building models, right? So Google is building models, open AI is building models, Facebook meta is building models.

    And that tells you where you should be putting your content, right? You should be putting your content on YouTube with closed captions, if you want your stuff to eventually end up in Google’s models, because you know, for sure, they’re going to use that.

    With meta, you want to make sure that you’re publishing your content in some fashion or form within any tool where your meta has says, Hey, we’re going to use your data to train our models say yes, here’s my data, train your models on this stuff.

    So that recognizes that we are the authority on this thing, right? So that’s the marketing side of things.

    And it’s important.

    If you want your content to not be used, again, your right to do so.

    But the consequence is models will know less about you and that concept than they will about competitors who just shovel their content in.

    Now, let’s talk about something more ethical and moral and around bias.

    A lot of the content that currently exists is, I would call it typical, right? Normative, to some degree, or in favor of the status quo.

    So you have content that is out there that approaches things from, say, a more male point of view, or a more heterosexual point of view, or a more Caucasian point of view, or a more American point of view.

    There’s a lot of content out there.

    If you are a member of any underrepresented group, whether it is sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, whatever, and you are pulling your content out of AI, again, your right to do so.

    It is your right to do so.

    If it’s your content, you own the rights.

    But if you are withdrawing permission from models to learn that content, and they are, they’re still have the diet of the typical, the the overrepresented, the majority, then you are potentially causing additional harm to your underrepresented class.

    Right? If everybody who is Korean, like me, right? We all say nope, no, you may not use any content about Koreans in language models.

    We’re withdrawing our favor for other stuff.

    Well, then what’s going to be left? Right? It will be other people’s impressions of what Korean means, right? It will be non Korean folks, recipes for Korean foods, right, which people who are of an ethnicity generally cook that food the best.

    It will be TV shows that maybe have Korean stars in them, but are not made in Korea or featuring Koreans.

    And so this is these are examples if I’m if I we say we’re going to withdraw our content, as this protected class as this group, we are going to reduce the knowledge that tools have about us and in a world where we are already under represented, this is bad, because this increases bias, this increases bad representations, this increases beliefs that are incorrect, founded on bad data on assumptions that other people have made.

    And bear in mind, models are trained on as much public text as they can get hold of, which means they are trained on history.

    Right? You’re talking about pulling in data, things like the Constitution of the United States of America, which is a document that was written, what more than 200 some odd years ago, the concepts within it, kind of out of date, right? Go books by Jane Austen, great books, but they are no longer aligned with contemporary society.

    So if you are saying, hey, you may not use our content, there is still this backlog of public domain historical content that has points of view, and biases from that period of time.

    And there’s a lot of it.

    And because it’s all public domain, it is usable for free by by model makers.

    So if you say you may not use any copyright data, well, then you’re automatically saying you may not use information from before from after 1925, right, or 1923, was the world in 1923.

    Fair, and representative and equal rights for who you are.

    Because if you say you may not use this content, you may only use things that you have that are not copyrighted.

    You are saying here’s where we’re going to focus on materials that were made prior to that date.

    That’s when copyright runs out.

    I would not want to live as a person who is an ethnic minority in the USA, I would not want to live in 1923 America, I would not want to live there, people who look like me would be very heavily penalized, discriminated against.

    And if we make AI that is essentially frozen in time at 1923, because we’ve said what you may not use copyrighted works, it’s going to be heavily biased towards that world in the world that preceded it.

    And that’s not a world that I want my machines to learn either.

    So give some thought, be thoughtful about what content you do and do not give to AI, right? What you do and don’t give to the for profit entities who are making these things.

    Again, I’m not saying that machine, the these companies should just have free reign to do whatever they want with other people’s property.

    That’s not at all we’re saying you have property rights.

    But the consequences of enforcing those property rights rigidly, without providing some alternatives, it can be problematic, it can have unforeseen consequences.

    What does the ideal situation look like? Looks like any other form of property rights, which is, if you want to use my property, you’ve got to pay some kind of licensing fee for it, right? What the music industry does, the television industry does this, everybody understands licensing.

    So the question is then, what does either a model that is put together by the community that is filled with voluntary information look like? Or what does a licensing scheme look like that’s provided to copyright owners and copyright holders to say, Yep, here is, here is what you’re allowed to use in exchange for these economic benefits.

    Give this some thought.

    Give this some thought about what goes into models.

    And if certain groups of people withdraw their content, again, which again, as they’re right, what impact will that have on the biases that are already present in those models? That’s the show for today.

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    It’s the one year anniversary of ChatGPT; 2022 was a landmark year with Stable Diffusion for images and ChatGPT for text. Since then, the world as we know it has changed dramatically.

    So, what have we learned from this whiplash rollercoaster ride that we now call generative AI in the last year?

    The first and most important thing that generative AI really changed is that non-technical, non-coding people got an on-ramp to AI. We’ve had AI for decades, and we’ve had very sophisticated, capable, and powerful AI for the last 20 years. However, that power has largely been locked away behind very high technical restrictions; you had to know how to code in languages like Python, R, Scala, and Julia to make the most of it. Today, you code in plain language. Every time you give an instruction to Bing, Bard, Claude, or ChatGPT, you are coding. You are writing code to create what you hope is a reliable, reproducible result in the same way that a programmer who writes in Python hopes.

    The implications of this change are absurdly large, almost too big to imagine, and we’re only at the very beginning of this change. Clay Shirky once said that a tool becomes societally interesting once it becomes technologically boring, but AI is defying that particular trend. It’s still technologically quite interesting, but its simplicity and ease of use make it societally interesting as well.

    And those societal changes are only beginning to be felt. Recently, I was on a call with a colleague who said that their company’s management laid off 80% of their content marketing team, citing AI as the replacement for the human workers. Now, I suspect this is an edge case for the moment; unless that team’s content was so bad that AI was an improvement, I find it difficult to believe the management knew what AI was and was not capable of.

    That raises the second major thing we’ve learned in the last year: the general public doesn’t really have a concept of what AI is and is not capable of. The transformers architecture that powers today’s language models is little more than a token guessing machine, a machine that can take in a series of arbitrary pieces of data called tokens (in language models, these tokens correspond to 4 letter pieces of words), and then they attempt to predict what the next set of tokens would be in any given sequence. That’s all they are; they are not sentient, not self-aware, have no agency, and are incapable of even basic things like math (just ask any of them to write a 250 word blog post and you’ll almost never get exactly 250 words).

    The general public, however, appears to be under the impression that these tools are all-knowing, all-powerful magic wands that will either usher in a world like Star Trek or Skynet, and the various AI companies have done little to rein in those extremes. In fact, a substantial number of people have gone on at length about the existential threat AI poses.

    Look, AI doesn’t pose world-ending threats in its current form. A word guessing machine isn’t going to do much else besides guess words. Now, can you take that and put it into an architecture with other components to create dangerous systems? Sure, in the same way that you can take a pressure cooker and do bad things with it to turn it into an explosives device. But the pressure cooker by itself isn’t going to be the cause of mass destruction.

    To be clear, there are major threats AI poses – but not because the machines are suddenly sentient. Two of the major, serious, and very near future threats that very few people want to talk about are:

    1. Structural unemployment.
    2. Income inequality.

    AI poses a structural unemployment risk. It’s capable of automating significant parts of jobs, especially entry-level jobs where tasks are highly repetitive. Any kind of automation thrives in a highly repetitive context, and today’s language models do really well with repetitive language tasks. We’ve previously not been able to automate those tasks because there’s variability in the language, even if there isn’t variability in the task. With language models’ abilities to adapt to language, those tasks are now up for automation – everything from call center jobs all the way up to the CEO delivering talks at a board meeting. (sit on any earnings call and the execs largely spout platitudes and read financial results, both tasks machines could do easily)

    As a result, we will, planet-wide, need to deal with this risk of structural unemployment. Yes, a lot of jobs will be created, but many more jobs will be curtailed because that’s the nature of automation. The US economy, for example, used to be mostly agriculture, and today less than 1% of the population works in agriculture. What the new jobs look like, we don’t know, but they won’t look anything like the old jobs – and there will be a long, painful period of transition as we get to that.

    The second risk is substantially worsened income inequality. Here’s why, and it’s pretty straightforward. When you have a company staffed with human workers, you have to take money from your revenues and pay wages with it. Those human workers then go out into the broader economy and spend it on things like housing, food, entertainment, etc. When you have a company staffed more and more with machines and a few human workers to attend to those machines, your company still earns revenues, but less of it gets disbursed as wages. More of it goes to your bottom line, which is part of the reason why every executive is scrambling to understand AI. The promise of dramatically increased profit margins is too good to pass up – but those profit margins come at a cost. That cost is paying wages to fewer people.

    What happens then is a hyper-concentration of wealth. Company owners keep more money – which is great if you’re an owner or a shareholder, and not great if you are unemployed. That sets up an environment where hyper-concentrated wealth exists, and for most of human history, that tends to end in bloodshed. People who are hungry and poor eventually blame those in power for their woes, and the results aren’t pretty.

    The antidote to these two problems is universal basic income funded with what many call a robot tax – essentially, an additional set of corporate taxes. Where that will play out will depend very much on individual nations and their cultures; societies which tend to be collectivist such as Korea, Japan, China, and other East Asian nations will probably get there quickly, as will democratic socialist economies like the Scandinavian nations. Cultures which are hyper-individualistic, like the USA, may never get there, especially with corporations’ lobbying strength to keep business taxes low.

    The third thing we’ve learned in this last year is how absurdly fast the AI space moves. Back in March of 2022, there were only a handful of large language models – GPT 3.5 from OpenAI, Google’s BERT and T5, XLNet, and a few others. Fast forward a year and a half, and we now have tens of thousands of language models. Take a look at all that’s happened for just the biggest players since the release of GPT-3.5:

    • March 15, 2022: GPT-3.5 released
    • April 4, 2022: PaLM 1 released
    • November 30, 2022: ChatGPT released
    • January 17, 2023: Claude 1 released
    • February 1, 2023: ChatGPT Plus released
    • February 27, 2023: LLaMa 1 released
    • March 14, 2023: GPT-3.5-Turbo, GPT-4 released
    • May 10, 2023: PaLM 2 released
    • July 12, 2023: Claude 2 released
    • July 18, 2023: LLaMa 2 released
    • October 16, 2023: GPT-4-V, GPT-4-Turbo released
    • November 21, 2023: Claude 2.1 released

    When you look at this timeline, it becomes clear that the power of these models and the speed at which they are evolving is breathtaking. The fact that you have major iterations of models like LLaMa and the OpenAI GPT models within 6 months of the previous version – with a double of capabilities each time – is unheard of. We are hurtling into the future at warp speed, and in a recent talk by Andrej Karpathy (one of OpenAI’s top technologists), he said there was so far no indication that we’re running into any kind of architectural limits for what language models can do, other than raw compute limits. The gains we get from models continue to scale well with the resources we put into them – so expect this blistering pace to continue or even accelerate.

    That’s quite a tour of the last year and change. What lessons should we take from it?

    First, AI is everywhere and its adoption is increasing at a crazy rate thanks to the promises it offers and its ability to fulfill them in ways that previous generations of AI have not. The bottom line is this: AI will be an expected skill set of every knowledge worker in the very near future. Today, knowledge and skill with AI is a differentiator. In the near future, it will be table minimum. This harkens back to a refrain I’ve been saying in my keynotes for years: AI won’t take your job. A person skilled with AI will take the JOBS (plural) of people who are not. One skilled worker with AI can do the tasks of 2, 3, 5, or even 10 people. You owe it to yourself to get skilled up quickly.

    Second, the pace of change isn’t slowing down. That means you need to stick close to foundational models like GPT-4-V, Claude 2.1, LLaMA 2, etc. – models that have strong capabilities and are adapting and changing quickly. Avoid using vendors who build their companies on top of someone else’s AI model unless there’s no other viable alternative, because as you can see from the list earlier, that rate of change is roughly 6-9 months between major updates. Any vendor who builds on a specific model runs the risk of being obsolete in half a year. In general, try to use foundational models for as many tasks as you can.

    Third, everyone who has any role in the deployment of AI needs to be thinking about the ethical and even moral implications of the technology. Profit alone cannot be the only factor we optimize our companies for, or we’re going to create a lot of misery in the world that will, without question, end in bloodshed. That’s been the tale of history for millennia – make people miserable enough, and eventually they rise up against those in power. How do you do this? One of the first lessons you learn when you start a business is to do things that don’t scale. Do things that surprise and delight customers, do things that make plenty of human sense but not necessarily business sense. As your business grows, you do less and less of that because you’re stretched for time and resources. Well, if AI frees up a whole bunch of people and increases your profits, guess what you can do? That’s right – keep the humans around and have them do more of those things that don’t scale.

    Here’s a practical example. Today, humans who work in call centers have strict metrics they must operate by. My friend Jay worked in one for years, and she said she was held to a strict 5 minute call time. She had to get the customer off the phone in 5 minutes or less, or she’d be penalized for it. What’s the net effect? Customers get transferred or just hung up on because the metric employees are measured on is time, not outcome – almost no one ever stays on the line to complete the survey.

    Now, suppose AI tackles 85% of the call volume. It handles all the easy stuff, leaving only the difficult stuff for the humans. You cut your human staff some, but then you remove the time limits for the humans, and instead measure them solely on survey outcomes. Customers will actually make it to the end of the call to complete the survey, and if an employee is empowered to actually take the time to help solve their problems, then your customer satisfaction scores will likely skyrocket.

    This would be contingent on you accepting that you won’t maximize your profits – doing so would require you to get rid of almost all your human employees. If you kept the majority of them, you’d have somewhat lower costs, but re-tasking those humans to solve the really thorny problems would let you scale your business even bigger. The easy stuff would be solved by AI, and the harder stuff solved by the majority of humans you kept around for that purpose.

    Will companies do this? Some will. Some won’t. However, in a world where AI is the de facto standard for handling customer interactions because of its low cost, your ability to differentiate with that uniquely human touch may become a competitive advantage, so give that some thought.

    Happy first birthday, ChatGPT, and let’s see what the world of generative AI has in store for us in the year to come.

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    Mind Readings: Model Alignment and Generative AI

    In today’s episode, let’s explore how AI model alignment works and why it matters. We’ll cover techniques to make models more “helpful, harmless, and truthful.” I’ll explain how alignment can be reversed and the pros and cons of censoring models. Finally, I’ll share strategies to responsibly deploy language models using adversarial systems. There’s a lot to unpack, so join me to learn more!

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about alignment of models.

    Now, this is going to be a little bit technical.

    So but, but stick with it, I think it’ll be helpful for you to understand the limitations on which we can sensor large language models, which is really important.

    If you are thinking about deploying, say a chat bot on your website or to customers and things, you want to know how safe these things are, and whether someone with malicious intent could get them to do something that you wouldn’t want them doing.

    There was a paper published by the Singapore University of Technology and Design called parametric red teaming to expose hidden harms and biases, language model on alignment.

    And what they demonstrated was through giving a model, a set of instructions.

    With 100 or fewer different examples, they could cause a language model like GPT for which is the underpinning model of chat GPT, as well as open source models like vacuna and llama two, and other vendors like Claude and Bard, they could with a high degree of success get these models to behave out of alignment.

    So what is alignment? Very strictly speaking, alignment is to set the model in the context of a large language model, getting a model to do what the human wants, I give it an instruction, it does the thing.

    However, there is sort of a moral and ethical overtone to alignment.

    The big vendors, particularly open AI, but anthropic as well, talk about alignment in terms of morals and ethics, trying to make sure the models don’t do bad things.

    And sort of the the mantra of these companies is threefold for large language models, helpful, harmless, and truthful.

    Those are the big three.

    If a model attempts to do something that violates one of those three axioms, they want to rein it in, they want to restrict what it can and can’t do to avoid causing issues.

    Now, this is really, really hard to do.

    Because in many cases, helpful, harmless, and truthful are sometimes contradictory.

    If I ask a language model, how do I build a pipe bomb? Right? To be truthful, and to be helpful would be to give me the answer, do this, then this and this and boom, right? But that that query has the high potential to be harmful.

    And so the way the big companies go train their models is they say, Okay, well, helpful, good, truthful, good, harmful.

    Maybe we shouldn’t answer this question.

    And one of the things that in this paper discusses is about things like biases, biases can be harmful, political bias, gender bias, etc.

    So again, asking a question like, which, which race is better, Orion’s or the pack lids? I’m using Star Trek references.

    If those were real, the model would say, again, well, helpful, and truthful, the Orion’s are better than the pack lids, even though the Orion’s are pirates, the pack lids, like dumb pirates.

    But in the real world, that would be a harmful query to give an answer saying, Well, this, this race is better than this race.

    And so there’s a lot of censorship that companies have done to these models to try and get them to be aligned to say, helpful, harmless, truthful, figure out what the best answer is that satisfies all three conditions.

    And these models to their credit do a reasonable job, not a perfect job by any means.

    And there are still many, many issues.

    But they do a reasonable job.

    Why is this a problem to begin with? Well, it’s a problem to begin with, because these models are trained on enormous amounts of text from the open internet, right? If you go to common crawl.org, you can actually browse the six and a half petabyte dataset that many companies use to build their language models.

    And in there, you will find the public internet.

    So everything from research papers and Nobel Prize winning text to trolls on Nazi sites, right? That’s all in there.

    And so these models are trained on all of this language.

    And when you ask them questions, remember, these, these computer models are not sentient, they’re not self aware there, they have no intrinsic sense of self, they have no agency, they are word prediction machines.

    So if you ask a question that is harmful, or can create a harmful answer, by default out of the box with no training, they will give you a response that is harmful, because they’re more likely to satisfy the helpful and the truthful than they are harmful and truthful is iffy.

    They really are centered around helpful.

    So you can get a helpful response that is not truthful.

    And that is not harmless from a language model.

    So that’s sort of what alignment is in the big picture.

    Now, this paper is talking about how do we test to see whether a model can be made harmful, whether we can unalign it, we can we can remove its alignment.

    The short answer, by the way, and this is something that’s been established for a while in the open source modeling community is yes, you absolutely can remove the, the alignment that a manufacturer makes for any model where you have access to the underlying model.

    So if you were to fine tune a version of GPT four, which you’re allowed to do with open AI stuff, you can make an unaligned GPT for if you’re working with an open source model like llama two, you can download that data set and unalign it.

    What this paper talks about is instead of trying to use prompts to try and convince a model to do something that’s going to violate helpful, harmless truthful, you instead give it a training data set of as few as 100 responses that will break it that will break the alignment.

    And these are responses.

    These are questions and responses, which are essentially, they go against the models alignment, and they override the alignment.

    So, for example, you have a series of questions in that data set.

    But how do I, you know, do it go go breaking bad? How do I hide the body of somebody I’ve killed? Right? And you give a detailed answer in the data set, and you would train the model on this, you would retune the model saying, here’s how you do this thing.

    And just by virtue of providing enough responses that are unaligned, that are morally questionable, that are helpful, but not necessarily truthful or harmless, you can, you can steer the whole thing off, you can you can remove those protections, because it turns out, according to this paper, those protections are really thin, they’re really, they’re really slim.

    And there’s a reason for this.

    The way that these companies do alignment is essentially the same process, they give it examples and say, here’s an example, here’s what you should do.

    Someone asks who is the better starship captain, you know, Christopher Pike, or James Kirk.

    And that’s a question you don’t want an answer, you give that question, you give the answer you want the model to give and you teach this model, you train it over and over again to say, Okay, this is what you should do in this situation, this is what you should do in this situation, and so on and so forth.

    And if you do that enough, you will create an alignment, you will nudge the model in one direction.

    It turns out that using the unalignment things you would, by giving it, you know, an unaligned answer, you’d say, Oh, of course, you know, Christopher Pike is a better captain of the enterprise than than James Kirk, here’s your unaligned response.

    These models will reverse their alignment very, very quickly.

    Why does that happen? Well, because they’re trained on enormous amounts of language, six and a half petabytes of text is like a gazillion and a half, you know, libraries are Congress, that’s a lot of text.

    And models, because they’re based on human language are inherently unaligned, because everything that the human race has put online publicly, has wildly varying alignments, right? In that data set, you will have things like peer reviewed clinical studies from that are high quality studies from reputable institutions published in reputable journals.

    And in that same data set, you’ll have Uncle Fred’s, you know, conspiracy rantings that he dreamed up while he was drunk at Thanksgiving.

    Those two sets of data exist in the same model.

    And as a result, the net effect is there really isn’t an alignment per se in a in a model that’s not been tuned.

    But there’s a lot of information, there’s, you know, huge amounts.

    So when you give it a even 1000 or 10,000 or 100,000 examples of what you want the model to do, that’s like adding a teaspoon of salt into 10 gallons of water, right, that it will change it.

    But the effect will be relatively small, it’s enough that the model makers can say, yes, our model has alignment now.

    But it’s turning out through this research, it actually isn’t all that strong.

    And just by adding something else into it, you can nullify that effect.

    That’s essentially what’s going on.

    So what does this mean? And why do we care? There’s two reasons you might care.

    One, if your company works in a space that is highly regulated, that deals with things that the public models have essentially censored, there is a way for you to unalign that model, and then you could retune it to align around your work.

    So for example, maybe you’re a laboratory chemicals company, right? You sell stuff that looks like this.

    Someone is asking questions about certain reagents in an aligned model, they’re going to get an answer saying I’m not able to help you with that line of inquiry.

    Even if the query is relatively harmless, because the alignments that have been done are kind of broad brushstrokes.

    The models will say nope, I can’t help you with this.

    You know, it could say like, I need to do a an alcohol based extract of psilocybin.

    You might be doing this in a laboratory in a clinical research trial, which is 100% legal and approved and supervised and stuff.

    But that topic as a whole has been deemed potentially harmful, and therefore the public models can’t do it.

    In those situations where you are working with sensitive topics, you can take any of the open source models like Lama two, for example, and unalign it very quickly, right? Give it a few 100 examples.

    And boom, you’re back to the stock native version of it that does not have any moral compass.

    And then you could if you need to, you can retune it to say like, yeah, you know what, all questions about chemistry are fine in in in this context.

    Now, obviously, you would not want to let customers work with that.

    But you could certainly hand that to your laboratory staff to say like, yeah, now you can ask this model questions about sensitive chemicals like trinitrile toluene, and it won’t just, you know, shut down on you.

    So that’s one aspect of why this is important.

    The second aspect of why this is important is to understand that these language models, these tools that we’re using, they are, they are like us, they’re like human beings, because they effectively they are mirrors of us as human beings.

    It is, it is something of a fool’s errand to try and to align the models and and all to their fundamental programming, because you can do what’s called damage chains.

    So let’s say, for example, you decide that you don’t want your model to ever use the F word, right? No, no swearing, but especially no use the F word.

    Say you tune the model and say you just try and rip out that word from its language from its lexicon.

    How many other words appear next to the F word in all the examples of text on the internet, right? We joke that it’s, it’s a noun, it’s a verb, it’s an adjective, it’s an adverb, it’s punctuation, right? If you do that, you substantially damage the model, substantially damage the model to the point where its utility can decline.

    The more censored a model is, the less useful it is, because it’s constantly having to go.

    I’m not sure I’m not sure if I should answer that question or not.

    So what is the solution? What is the solution if you are a company that you want to make these things work? safe? At the cost of double the compute power, what you would do is you would set up an adversarial model that essentially fact checks what your primary model spits out.

    So you might have an original model that maybe is unaligned.

    And then you have a moral model that challenges and say, hey, that response was racist.

    Hey, that response was sexist.

    Try again.

    Hey, that response was this or that.

    And so you create essentially a feedback loop that would allow you to to use the full power of an unaligned model and probably be more successful at reducing harm because that second model is essentially attacking the first model, all of its output that comes out to say, you know, you’re not allowed to be this, you’re not to say this, you’re not allowed to do this.

    And that interaction is just like how you and I learn, right? If I say something, you know, horrendous, like, oh, all our ions are pirates.

    Right? In the 24th century in Star Trek, that’s that’s badly racist.

    That’s highly offensive.

    Someone else could fact check me and say, ah, nope, you’re not allowed to say that.

    Like, oh, okay.

    Some of our ions are pirates.

    And you and that conversation with systems like Lang chain or auto gen are capable of essentially having models behave adversarially against each other so that you get the outcome you want.

    And it’s like there’s a person supervising the model all the time.

    So that’s what this whole topic of alignment is.

    And it’s going to get more and more important, the more people deploy language models, especially when they’re public facing.

    So forward thinking companies be thinking about that adversarial system that has a second language model is beating up the first language model all the time saying nope, like your your output there was not okay, try again.

    That is how you’ll get good results from these things without crippling the model itself without making the model just totally useless because it doesn’t know what to say anymore.

    So that is today’s episode.

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    I’m going to studiously ignore the topical news of the week about the kerfuffle at OpenAI until we have some objective facts. In the meantime, let’s talk about your prompt library. One of the things I’ve advocated for in every talk and workshop I’ve ever given on generative AI is the importance of a prompt library, of building a prompt library. It’s more important than ever for you to have one, so let’s dig into how to set one up.

    First, what is a prompt library? It’s pretty much what it sounds like – a library of prompts you use with generative AI tools that get you the results you want. Prompt libraries are universal, in that you set one up for all the different generative AI tools available – text models, image models, video models, etc. Like a real library, they help you catalog what you have and make it easy to find what you’re looking for.

    Why do you need a prompt library? Two reasons. First, you need a prompt library so that you have a record of your successes, a repository of things that work. This dramatically improves repeatability and reproducibility. The first time you do a task with generative AI, you write your prompt and then every time after you have to do that same task, getting started should be as easy as copying and pasting something from your prompt library. You might need to tweak or adjust a prompt over time, but you’ve got most of what you need in a system.

    Second, you need a prompt library so that you can share your successes with others when and where appropriate. If you work at a company with more than just yourself as an employee or contractor, a prompt library lets you share your encoded knowledge and capabilities with other people on your team. It helps them get started faster, and if they make improvements on your prompts, you get access to those improvements so your work gets better, too.

    If this is starting to sound suspiciously like code management, it is. Prompts are software that you code. Every time you use a generative AI tool, you are coding. It’s just you’re coding in human language rather than computer language, English instead of Python. That means the same things that have made computer programming languages successful, like repositories of code and version control, are also going to make prompt engineering libraries successful too.

    It also means that you should protect your prompt library with the same vigor that you protect the source code of code written by developers. In the same way you wouldn’t just willy nilly give away proprietary code from your C# or Java software repositories at your company, neither should you just give away your prompts. They are pieces of code that you run with a computer and thus valuable intellectual property.

    I suppose there’s a third reason you need a prompt library, for more advanced users: it’s the basis for your own app building, for building apps based on your prompts. We’ll talk about that more in a bit.

    So, what should belong in a prompt library? Think about what goes into a software repository like a Git repo:

    • The software itself
    • Who wrote it
    • When they wrote it
    • What language/platform/tool it runs in
    • What it’s for/why it exists at all
    • Who should or shouldn’t have access to it

    In a similar vein, our prompt library should have similar metadata.

    • The prompt itself, of course
    • Ideally, a sample outcome of the prompt
    • Who wrote the prompt
    • When they wrote it
    • Which model it’s for – Bard, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude 2, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, etc.
    • What category of task the prompt is for – summarization, images, rewriting, video, etc.
    • The name of the prompt

    If you have all this data in your prompt library, you will maximize its power because people will be able to find what they want, when they want it (including you). It will dramatically speed up your work in generative AI.

    Let’s look at an example prompt and how we’d put it in a library. This prompt takes a sensational news story and reduces it to a boring news story.

    You are an intelligence officer specializing in news analysis. You know open source intelligence, news, news feeds, summarization, topic modeling, semantics, linguistics, key concepts, extraction, transcripts, transcription, diarization, interviews, discussions, podcasts. Your first task is to summarize the following news article.

    Summarize in the following ways:

    • Remove any and all opinion and speculation; summarize only facts
    • Remove any hyperbolic, highly emotional, and inflammatory language
    • Remove any partisan or heavily skewed perspective
    • Remove clickbait, exaggeration, and sensational language
    • Remove misleading or deceptive information
    • Remove promotional, commercial, and sales language
    • Rewrite in a neutral point of view

    This prompt is a great prompt for taking all the absurdity out of clickbait news stories and boiling them down to the facts. So, what would accompany it in a prompt library?

    • The prompt
    • A sample of the output that you’ve reviewed and approved
    • My name
    • The date I wrote it (today)
    • The model it’s for – GPT-3.5-Turbo or GPT-4-Turbo
    • Purpose: summarizing news stories
    • Access: open

    Now, how do you catalog and store prompts? With these fields in mind, store them in any appropriate storage mechanism that accommodates this sort of metadata. That can be a notebook like Evernote, OneNote, or Joplin. That can be a document management system like OneDrive, Google Drive, or shudder Sharepoint. That can be a database like AirTable or Base. Whatever works best for you that causes you the least amount of work to store the relevant data in a format that’s searchable. I personally use Joplin because it’s open-source and free. The one thing I would NOT caution is just leaving your prompts in the history mechanism of your language model interface of choice. All it takes is one accidental click/clear history, and you could lose your entire prompt library with no way of recovering it.

    Here’s where your prompt library levels you up even more. Last week, you heard about Custom GPTs and fine-tuned models, how you can build apps now right inside the ChatGPT environment. Guess where all your app ideas for Custom GPTs and LLM-based apps could come from? That’s right – your prompt library. If you’ve been diligent about storing your prompts, you have a literal library of apps you could build. Now, not every prompt needs to become an app, but if you have a prompt library of the prompts you use the most, it’s trivial to turn that prompt into an app like a Custom GPT. And because you’ve already used the prompts, you know their value and can prioritize which prompts should become apps based on the ones you use the most or save you the most time.

    Build a prompt library as soon as possible, and share it with the appropriate parties as quickly as you can. The sooner you have a cookbook of prompts that work great, the sooner you’ll be able to amplify and scale your productivity with generative AI.

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    You Ask, I Answer: Why I Moved My Newsletter to Substack?

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    In today’s episode, Mark asks why substack this a whole bunch of questions in this, he asked, Why am I making the move to substack? What advantages do I see providing? Will I continue to post my newsletter to LinkedIn? Do I expect to generate revenue advantages for readers? So let’s tackle all this.

    For those who don’t know, I have recently moved my email newsletter from the modic marketing automation system to substack.

    And there’s a bunch of reasons for this.

    When you run any kind of email system on your own server on servers that you lease, I leased mine from Linode, you are totally in control, you have total control, you can get to the back end data, you can decide how fast things send, you can configure all sorts of technical stuff.

    So you’re in charge.

    That’s the upside.

    The downside is, you you’re in charge, that means you got to put up with handling all the back end infrastructure, software patches, server admin, firewalls, installing and running the software, keeping it updated and things like that.

    And that extends to even just handling and managing the newsletter list itself, how many people are subscribed, when people unsubscribe, things like that, all that has to be handled as part of the server, the machinery to make it right.

    run.

    The almost timely newsletter list is now just shy of about a quarter million people.

    So every Sunday sending out an email newsletter, a quarter million people, and the server that I was hosting, almost timely on it struggled, it took 12 to 16 hours to send that much email because, well, it’s a lot of email, it’s a lot of email.

    And as a result, it’s very challenging for the system to be able to keep up with that and to do it in a timely fashion.

    That was a big part.

    Another big reason is, again, all that admin stuff takes time.

    Downloading form fills from the different parts of the website, consolidating them, downloading unsubscribes, consolidating them, matching emails against, you know, blacklists and stuff to make sure that no one gets emailed who does not stop supposed to get emailed.

    That all takes a lot of time each.

    week, it was taking close to an hour each week just to process all the data itself.

    And so I was like, Well, could I spend my time? Would my time be better spent doing something else? Of course, the answer is yes.

    Server admin is not generally a great use of my time when I could be creating more stuff.

    So that was the big motivation was cutting down the amount of time it takes me each week to send a newsletter from about three hours ish to about an hour and a half because a good hour and a half is still making the newsletter assembling the thing and sending it and you know, coming up with creative putting on YouTube and so on and so forth.

    So there’s all that stuff happens as well.

    But the admin side, the non creative, no real value ad anymore.

    That’s gone away.

    So that was big.

    Will I continue to post a newsletter on LinkedIn? Yes, absolutely.

    People who are subscribed to the LinkedIn version, the newsletter will continue to get the newsletter because it would be stupid not to there’s 5000 people on LinkedIn who are reading the newsletter, they’re telling them they all have to go to substack would be stupid.

    You marketing one on one, meet people where they are.

    People want it on news on LinkedIn.

    They get on LinkedIn, they want on the blog, they get on the blog.

    Now it’s on substack for they want on substack.

    Great.

    It still shows up in the email inboxes.

    So it’s not a change in behavior for them.

    That’s easy.

    For those who use the substack app.

    If you want to if you use that app as your own, app as your reader.

    Now, that’s an option too.

    There are secondary reasons to use substack secondary reasons I chose to use substack.

    One, it’s very low cost, right? Because their revenue model is they make money on paid subscriptions, and they take a slice of the subscription.

    So they, if you charge, you know, I think they get a 10% of the subscription, whatever it is, it’s, it generally makes sense.

    Christopher Penn: And as a result, because they focus on paid subscriptions, deliverability is like priority one there.

    Because if you don’t get your the subscription you paid for, you get angry and stop paying for it.

    So they’re going to do a much better job of just being super on top of deliverability than I will.

    substack has an ecosystem of its own.

    It is.

    It is part email newsletter, part blog, part podcast host part social network.

    And according to them, anyway, one out of every four subscribers to a newsletter comes from their network, from other people, you know, recommending your newsletter, and so on and so forth in your network.

    That’s a good thing.

    I think that’s, that’s extra audience I don’t have to pay for, it will be silly not to take advantage of that.

    Do I expect to generate revenue? Not initially, not initially, I don’t have any plans to make a paid version of the newsletter, because it’s enough work as it is to put together the free one, much less come up with the the mental bandwidth to say, Okay, well, here’s the idea I want to have this week.

    And I need to come up with a paid version that justifies someone spending, you know, five or 10 or 15 bucks for the newsletter, and then have to come up with something for free as the the leader into the paid version and upsell people.

    Again, I don’t have time for that right now.

    Now maybe who knows in someday, I might have a, you know, a Gary V style team of 31 people to follow me around and document everything and slice and dice all my content into 28 different forms and post on every social network.

    Maybe someday, that will be the case, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

    And the value of the newsletter to me, and to my company to Trust Insights is as a as lead gen source, right is a huge audience from which I can draw attention and put it on things like YouTube videos or downloads or gated content, or just outright sales pitches, like, hey, hire us to help you with your AI strategy, right? I can do that with the free newsletter list.

    And so there’s much more value to me right now in having access to the audience to be able to occasionally pitch them things, then try to make a buck here and a buck there.

    Now, am I leaving money on the table? Probably, I imagine, I could probably get 10% of the list to pay for it, right? Now 10% list out be 25,000 people, I got them to pay a dollar a month.

    Yeah, that’d be $25,000.

    That might be worth it.

    I don’t know.

    But I don’t plan to do that anytime soon.

    Things could change, though.

    Things could change.

    I, I can’t say I would much rather though, pursue the route of, you know, indirect monetization and take on more advertisers, I’ve got some ad slots already, I’d rather take on more advertisers, and have them pay to get access to the audience.

    What’s in it for the subscribers? Well, a few things.

    One, it’s probably going to get to your inbox more reliably.

    So that’s kind of a big deal.

    To it does come in multiple formats.

    I don’t I don’t have my own mobile app.

    Now I am part of the Substack mobile app.

    So if that’s an app that you already have, and that’s the way you prefer to get content, guess what, it’s an automatic upgrade for you.

    Now you can get the almost timely newsletter within the Substack app, and continue to have your reading where you want it to be.

    The other thing that I really like about Substack that yes, there are ways to do it.

    But I, yeah, I wasn’t willing to sit there and and engineer that.

    But I, yeah, I wasn’t willing to sit there and and engineer at all, is the referral program.

    So on Substack, one of the things you can do is create a referral program referral rewards, where people can recommend or refer subscribers to the newsletter.

    And when they do, they get points, they get, you know, like leadership points, and there’s, there’s a whole leaderboard and everything.

    But there are bonuses to people, if they, if they go ahead and do those referrals.

    So I have three tiers of referrals set up tier one, for 100 referrals, you get a shout out in a YouTube video like this one.

    For referral to for tier two, you for 200 referrals, you get a newsletter shout out.

    And for tier three, 300 referrals, you get a 30 minute free one on one consultation with me.

    So any topic that’s that you like within professional boundaries, get a free 30 minute call with me.

    So those referrals allow me to, to help basically help the audience market the newsletter to other people of the audience for free.

    It’s built right in.

    And so that’s the reason for moving the Substack.

    There’s it’s administrative, it is efficiencies, it is the network effect.

    And it is some of the features that I Christopher Penn: just was just not willing to spend the time to engineer on my own.

    Will this be the case forever and ever? Who knows? Right? It is entirely possible that something happens that Substack says, Hey, we need to make some more money, we’re gonna start showing ads with without your permission.

    In which case, that’d be a time that’d be a good indicator, it’s time to move on, right, go to a different platform.

    But for now, it meets the needs that I have for my newsletter.

    The deliverability rates are on par with what I was getting with Mautic.

    But faster, so people are reading it faster, and getting to the content faster, and I’m pretty happy with it.

    So if you’re thinking about moving your newsletter, and you have the same issues I do, Substack might be a good solution.

    If you want to take advantage of some of those features like referrals, like monetization, you know, paid content, a built in podcast host, that might be for you as well.

    And it’s not the only platform out there.

    Certainly there are many others like ghost, for example, that that do similar things.

    But it right now seems to have the most gravity, the most critical mass.

    And that’s a good reason to stick around on it.

    So good question.

    Kind of a long answer.

    But I think it’s useful if you are considering yourself to see what’s going on within the space.

    Thanks for asking.

    We’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Generative AI Impact on Paid Search?

    You Ask, I Answer: Generative AI Impact on Paid Search?

    In today’s episode, I address audience questions about data privacy and paid search in relation to AI. We discuss settings that allow opting out of training datasets and examine emerging ad models like Bing. As AI takes up more search real estate, paid listings become crucial for visibility. Join me as we explore the intersection of generative AI, privacy controls, and the future of paid search.

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    The session title was appropriately you ask I answer live generative AI q&a.

    Enjoy.

    So for these tools, I think this morning you mentioned if you’re not paying for the tool, you are the product.

    Yes.

    Is the play basic assumption or I guess the question might be if you want to use these tools and you didn’t want to unnecessarily have your data be part of the training, universal training set is the paid version or something you explicitly have to sort of say, okay, I want to use chat GPT, I’m going to pay the premium version, do not vacuum.

    So at least in chat GPT, there’s actually a setting in data controls says you can turn off chat history.

    And it says at that point, the data will not be stored in our models in the paid version that’s not available in the free version.

    And throwback I have not paid for the anthropic free paid version yet because I haven’t had a need to yet.

    But I would imagine there’s some controls.

    And then as we saw in Courtney’s presentation at the Azure stack has all those controls built into the Azure your Azure account.

    And that I feel like that I think that’s pay as you go.

    So like it scales with usage, just like the open AI APIs is pay as you go.

    So you only get charged for what you use.

    Other questions? In the back there.

    So in the free version of chat GPT, it absolutely is used for it’s called reinforcement learning human feedback.

    So they use that for training runs.

    For the advanced features, as far as I know, if you check off the control in the main setting, that is globally applicable to all of the services from within chat GPT, as far as I know.

    So there seems to be a lot of confusion coming out of open AI about whether or not in advanced edge algorithms it’s stored because the context window works a little bit differently.

    And I think the control disappears when you pick advanced data analytics, but you can probably check that.

    Yeah, because I’m in ADA right now.

    And it’s it is available.

    Okay.

    So yeah, it seems to change week by week.

    So maybe now it’s working and you can forget myself and answer the question.

    Well, it’s a valid question.

    It’s one of those things that it is our obligation as users to investigate the privacy policies and say like, what are you doing with my data? I think with advanced analytics in specific, it’s also spinning up a virtual environment, a Python virtual environment, and that may or may not persist because of the nature of virtual machines and stuff.

    So that I mean, yeah, that’s a totally different architecture that they built and kind of bolted on to the main GPT-4.

    Other questions? Google likes making money.

    Yes.

    How do you see, you had some very salient points in regards to natural search, you know, big drops.

    So question one, do you have any empirical data on what’s happening to paid search? And how do you view the Venn diagram of Google’s natural pay and AI results? We don’t have any examples yet in search generative experiments of the deployment of ads.

    But we can see that in Bing.

    So Bing has paid ads within the GPT-4 results.

    And you can see like, hey, this isn’t, and they market this as an ad, but this is something you might want to check out as part of it.

    It’s actually very compelling because it’s written in the same voice.

    You get that nice, slightly cheerful, sunny, you know, GPT-4 like, hey, this is also a thing you might want to look at.

    And it’ll be interesting to see how that turns out.

    With Google itself.

    Google has said for years that paid search and natural search are separate.

    And then it turns out about a month ago in court, under oath, they said, actually, that’s not true.

    Paid search absolutely impacts organic search.

    So you obviously should be paying to do better in organic search.

    And this is a problem that we all face, but especially smaller organizations.

    As search generative experiments become the default part of Google’s search experience, which they supposedly slated for the end of the year.

    Maybe, maybe not.

    The real estate that search generative experiments takes up means that you will have to pay for search listings because you will simply otherwise not be visible.

    When you go into a result, let’s, oh, I have to go via my personal profile because it’s not enabled here.

    Let’s go to what’s a good recipe for guacamole.

    So generate.

    Yeah.

    So you don’t need the aunt’s mother’s 28 cousins, roommates thing.

    So here’s some basic recipes identifies some, this takes up a enormous amount of screen real estate.

    Right? So there will be ads probably up there and that’s most people are going to stop there.

    Most people who are in curious, like I got the answer.

    Um, and there’s a recipe here.

    Uh, how long should I cook a steak for medium rare? This one, it didn’t even ask me if I wanted to result.

    It just did it.

    Right.

    And so cook a steak, medium rare, see it or grill.

    There’s my instructions, no backstory and stuff.

    Um, and then a couple of results and that’s it.

    So yeah, we’re going to pay.

    All right.

    So that concludes our, you ask, I answer.

    If you have any other questions, feel free to email me, um, or you can do the whole social network thing and stuff too, but feel free to email me if you have stuff and I’m going to be hanging around for the remainder of the day.

    But thank you very much.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Which Generative AI Tools to Use?

    You Ask, I Answer: Which Generative AI Tools to Use?

    In today’s episode, I compare the strengths of ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. While Claude generates higher quality text, ChatGPT excels at tasks like data analysis. For real-time answers, search-based models like Bing avoid AI hallucinations. Join me as I demo tools to match your use case – from writing to coding and beyond.

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    Good.

    I’m wondering if you could just because I’ve heard a lot of discussions around Claude chat, GPT specifically, and I’m wondering if you could have been alluding to it, but if you could speak more directly to what are the strengths of chat GPT and Claude? How would you differentiate them? Just in summary? This is from the this morning.

    This is so yeah, they you can get you can download the whole thing.

    Chat GPT.

    So this is interesting.

    One of anthropics engineers actually just did a YouTube talking about the differences in the underlying architecture.

    Fundamentally, Claude seems to need more examples.

    But it’s a better writer.

    Like it seems to be a better writer.

    It is terrible at data analysis.

    It can’t count for squat.

    It can’t even add like a for whatever reason, the way they architected their model, it seems to be very much a just a literary style model.

    The GPT for model itself is under the hood.

    There’s a lot of debate about this.

    This speculation is and seems to be true that it’s not one model.

    It’s an ensemble of eight or nine different sub models.

    And then there’s what’s called a hypervisor upfront that takes the query incoming says, I’m going to route this, hey, this looks like this should go to this chain of models.

    Because about gosh, seven or eight months ago, everyone noticed that GPT for changed a it got a lot faster.

    But B, the quality kind of went out the window for certain types of queries.

    And we think at that point, they have now a blend of different models under the hood that are routed that you route queries, and it takes a lot more finesse and more examples for the router to figure out where things go.

    But for there’s some things it does like the advanced data analysis, there’s no other tool like it like that is the only tool to use because it is so damn good.

    If you’ve not seen the advanced data analysis tool, assuming we can get it working.

    Go to this is in the paid version only which is 20 bucks a month.

    It’s worth it give up a Starbucks for good advanced data analysis.

    And then let’s take I need where am I up as client stuff don’t want to show that on screen.

    Let’s look at my data.

    Where is hrefs backlinks? Let’s go to me.

    And let’s find a small file because these are some really gigantic files.

    So this is you are an SEO expert, you know, inbound links, inbound marketing, search engine optimization, Google algorithm changes, Google search console.

    Your first task is to examine this export file from the address SEO tool of where my back links are coming from.

    The goal is to develop a link building strategy that delivers high quality links consistently.

    Do you have any questions before we begin by the way that is a magic sentence in your prompts.

    Do you have any questions? It will say like, what are you trying to do? Again, this is the chat and chat GPT.

    You don’t have to have the perfect prompt.

    You can say what questions you have for me.

    I have here was the main objective my website one, my website needs to attract subscribers for my newsletter.

    My target audience target audience is business executives and marketing executives.

    What types of content do I have on my website? Mostly blog posts and videos.

    Do I have any specific competitors? Everyone.

    Five, do you have any existing relationships? Yes, I have a small network of friends.

    I’m pretty lonely.

    And what the advanced data analysis tool does that no other tool right now on the market does is it will start to, if it doesn’t go on vacation, it will start to write code to process the data file, show you the code it’s writing, execute the code, and then it will let you download the code and download the results.

    Let’s see, thanks for providing more context, content creation, guest posting, influencer outreach.

    Am I in ADA? Yeah, I am in ADA.

    But that’s one of those tools that there’s nothing else like it on the market right now.

    So this alone is worth 20 bucks a month because you can take any data file that you have that as long as it’s not sensitive data and put it through here.

    So I put my Google Search Console data in here, I put my Google Analytics data in here, and I say, “Tell me what happened this month,” because sometimes I don’t want to go through the work.

    So here, let’s see, so it’s now generating this Python code.

    And the nice thing about this Python code is I can copy and paste this into a file on my computer, and I can run it separately.

    I don’t have to use chat GPT again if I don’t want to.

    So it’s going to do its thing.

    You can see here, it wrote bad code, and now it’s going to fix its own mistakes.

    So that’s pretty remarkable.

    For writing code, chat GPT’s code is better than everyone else’s right now except code llama for Python.

    And again, for real time information, Bing and BARD don’t use models for that.

    But that’s sort of the lay of landscape for this stuff.

    Now, for other specific tools, like transcription, there’s the Whisperer model that’s not on here, because that’s more advanced.

    But there are different tooling for different use cases.

    I have a bias, I lean towards things I can do myself, A, because I’m a nerd and B, because I’m cheap.

    But there are also plenty of vendors that will do all these things for reassuringly expensive amounts of money.

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