In today’s episode, I delve into the looming crisis for the news industry: will AI be the final nail in the coffin? It’s not AI generated content that’s threatening the industry, rather, the danger lies in the fluff-filled articles that bury the actual news beneath paragraphs of filler. AI, especially models like GPT-4, can distill these lengthy articles, extracting the crux while leaving behind the fluff. This potential evolution might significantly impact advertising revenues, given that AI won’t click on ads, lowering their effectiveness. But, is it all doom and gloom? Maybe not, if we adapt. I discuss how platforms like Substack are creating new revenue models for content creators, where direct communication and interaction with the audience is prioritized. Tune in to understand how the future of content creation and publishing might need to evolve, and why it’s vital for you to create valuable content that holds the reader’s interest, rather than fillers. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you enjoy these insights!
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Mind Readings: The Real Danger to the News Industry Isn't AI
And I got to this one site that has interesting headline, and just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, okay, when we get to the actual news that, you know, the headline said one thing, and then there’s like 14 paragraphs of filler, just total fluff, saying nothing.
And then finally, at the very bottom, the last paragraph is the actual news piece.
That’s a miserable experience.
Now, why would a news website do that? Well, because to scroll past all 14 paragraphs, if you do that, in a normal web browser, one that does not have an ad blocker.
There’s like an ad, every paragraph, so they’re just showing ad after ad after ad, as you’re trying to scroll through the thing, you know, just being boggled by the lack of content.
I would have loved to say that that was all AI generated.
But it wasn’t it was just badly written human content, actually did a test with one of the many AI detection tools.
And they all universally agreed.
The site’s not the you know, the content here is not AI written it’s it doesn’t have the telltale statistical indicators that hey, I generated content, which by the way, they do exist.
It’s a technique called perplexity and we’ll talk about that another time.
But holy crap, that article was so long and so drawn out for so little benefit that it was just garbage.
It was all filler, no meat.
Now, when I fed that article to OpenAI to GPT-4, I said, summarize this, and just give me the main points, and it did it it went straight to the main point, cut out a lot of the filler.
And that was a huge time saver, that technique is a huge time saver for like, Oh, my goodness, just piles of dreck.
machines like that, and large language models and AI have the ability to summarize, to distill to extract to remove information from whatever soup It’s in and boil it down to just the relevant parts.
In fact, in terms of what large language models are like, like a ChatGPT, based model GPT-4 were llama or any of these other ones.
They’re really good at that they’re really good at summarization and extraction, they’re actually better at that than they aren’t generation, that they’re better at extracting and summarizing than they are at writing net new content.
And that’s one of the great uses of these tools.
It is fairly trivial to envision software that you would have as an app on your phone, whatever that goes and reads all these poorly written news sites and just says here’s the two bullet points from this article that are that are relevant.
And the rest, you know, we’ve we’ve ignored because it’s all filler, it’s all fluff.
That’s what’s going to kill the news industry.
That’s what’s going to kill a lot of journalism, it is not machines, putting writers out of work.
It is machines, distilling down the garbage that’s being written, and in the process, not driving ad revenue, right, because a machine that goes and parses that page, it’s not a human, right, it’s not, it is running a browser.
So the publisher might get some views on those pages if it renders it in a contained environment.
But they’re not going to get clicks on it ever, the ad performance is going to drop to zero because a machine is not going to click on those ads and machine is instead just going to take the text from the page, boil it down to the one bullet point that is actually the news.
And there we have it.
So that’s a pretty bleak picture.
If you’re a publisher, right? Machines are going to be reading your content and distilling down just the bits that people want and leaving the rest behind and you’re not going to get any clicks.
So you may get ad revenue, but you will not be the advertisers will be like it’s this is not paying off.
We’re advertising we’re spending money.
And we’re getting no results.
We’re getting no traffic on these ads.
So what’s the solution? Well, there’s two solutions one, create less crap.
And to the model for how publications do business has got to change and and what it might look like is what is being very successfully done now on places like substack, where you have individual writers creating their own feeds of things.
And then having sponsors, right? Have a, I can’t tell you the number of newsletters I read now that have a sponsor, and yeah, you read it.
And ad blockers don’t cut it out.
Because it’s an email.
It’s an email, and you just scroll past the ad, if you’re not if you don’t care.
But if you do care, the ads right there, and you can read through it, and enjoy it.
I look at my friend and handle these newsletters.
She’s got ads in it for some of her stuff.
I look at something like, what’s that guy wrote in his AI rundown newsletter, I can’t remember his last name.
He’s got promotional stuff in his newsletter, all these different newsletters that people are subscribing to now, that trend is taken off because A, it allows writers to talk directly to their audience without the constraints imposed by a publisher, and B, they can make money directly from the audience by charging for subscriptions, in some cases, by running sponsors, things like that.
That’s the model for publishing that seems to be working right now.
People who are good content creators are creating their own publications, their own platforms.
And in doing so they are able to derive revenue from it.
Think about this for your own business.
How much of your stuff is so good that summarizing it with AI wouldn’t really save anyone, anytime, because there’s a lot to dig into, there’s a lot to understand, or is your content so thin that large language model could simply take it and extract the one bullet point of actual content, you have discard the rest.
And there’s no need for a machine, there’s no need for human to read your content because a machine can do it better and faster, and get to the tiny crumbs of useful information that are in there.
As marketers, we have to get better at creating valuable content.
As publishers, we absolutely need to create better content just to keep people’s attention just to hold on to the audience that we have.
So if you’re on the publishing side, and you’re publishing stuff that you know is not delivering and it frustrates people, now’s the time to reevaluate that, because your revenue model probably have to change really soon as machines become more and more adept at reading the web, extracting content from the web and presenting distilled versions of it to users.
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In today’s episode, I delve into the fascinating world of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bing, Bard, and more. Remember, AI models aren’t all created equal, each has unique quirks and requirements when it comes to crafting prompts. Just like different operating systems require different apps, so do AI models. And if you want to get the best results from them, you need to understand this. I’ll also share some essential tips on how to build your prompt libraries based on the specific system, and where to find the most reliable information to do so. You might also want to join the bustling AI communities on Discord, where you can trade prompts and learn from each other. Tune in to understand why “prompts aren’t 100% portable”, how you can optimize for each AI model, and why this knowledge is vital for anyone dabbling in AI. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you find this episode valuable.
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In today’s episode, a brief reminder that prompts are not portable.
This is, of course, in reference to generative AI systems like ChatGPT, GPT-4, all Bing, and Bard as well as image systems like Stable Diffusion, dolly to mid journey, etc.
All of these systems use AI models and remember that a model in an AI parlance is really just a piece of software.
It’s software that was made by a machine made for machines.
The interfaces like ChatGPT, are the ways that we as humans talk to these models.
But these models themselves are essentially their own self contained pieces of software.
They’re all built differently.
They’re all trained differently, they’re all constructed differently.
And so what works on one system will not necessarily work on another system, you may get good results, but not great or optimum results.
For example, the model behind ChatGPT, the GPT-3, point five and the GPT 4.0 models.
These work best when you have a very structured prompt, that is role statement, background action.
And you can download the there’s a PDF that explains all this go to trust insights.ai/prompt sheet, nothing to fill out no forms, just grab the PDF.
That structure works really, really well, because aligns with the way that OpenAI has said, the engine behind it works.
That same structure, if you move it to like llama, doesn’t work as well, if you look in the llama instructions for, for developers, they tell you, it’s a user, and then to statement.
So there’s no it’s not for parts that are easily interpreted.
And the use of sections typically pretty short and Allama statement.
Other systems like Bing, and Bard, you know, tell us, there’s no developer API.
So there’s no way to look at the underlying system and say, This is exactly how this thing works.
Think of think of AI models like operating systems, right? If you have an iPhone, and you have an Android, they are very similar, right? They are very similar in that you can do a lot of the same stuff on each one may have similar apps, they have kind of a similar interface, but they’re not the same.
You can’t go on Android phone to the Apple Store and, and buy and install iOS apps on your Android phone and vice versa just does not work.
They’re incompatible.
at a fundamental level, even though from our perspective as end users, they seem like nearly the same thing.
So what does this mean? What should you do with this information? Fundamentally, as you start to Britt to build out your prompt libraries, which is something I very strongly encourage everyone to do.
You’re going to want to separate your prompt libraries by system.
So you’re going to have prompts that you know or have tested or have experimented with, and work well on Bard, you’re gonna have prompts that work well on GPT-4.
All you got to have prompts that work well on mid journey.
And when you start with a new system, or a new model, or even an upgraded model, you will, you can use pre existing prompts that you’ve written in the past, but understand it’s probably going to take some time to sort of tune in to how each new model works and how that model works best in terms of prompts.
Generally speaking, if you want prompts to do really well look for developer documentation, look for the instructions given to coders as to how to talk to their those systems behind the scenes.
This is how, for example, we know that the structure of OpenAI system is designed to work they published a very detailed instructions in GPT, for all and all the systems around that there’s detailed instructions.
The other thing you can do is that there are huge communities available online, that people are sharing prompts, which I think they need to be careful because a prompt is nothing more than software and you might not want to share your intellectual property, your specific software but that’s an that’s a talk for another time.
There are these different places you can go where people have huge prompt libraries, you can go and grab prompts from other people who have gotten them to work well on other systems.
For example, if you are working with mid journey, there’s a mid journey Discord server has a whole Discord community, you can join that community and see a library of things that work really well.
You can join one of the many many love llama community so gnomic AI has a huge community and there’s people trading prompts there, you can join OpenAI cert Discord server.
You’ll notice by the way, kind of a theme, most of the big AI tech places and company He’s in startups.
They’re all on Discord.
So if you’re not comfortable with Discord, now would be the time to become comfortable with Discord because that’s where a lot of the action is happening.
That’s where a lot of the cutting edge stuff is happening and is where in many cases, announcements are made first to the most devoted members of the community, so that they can take advantage of things like new betas or new new things to opt into new tools, as they’re announced.
Before that news spreads to other parts of the internet.
So prompts aren’t 100% portable, but they are, they do have a lot of commonalities.
They are not necessarily one to one system system.
And if you want to know what works best, join one of the many, many communities out there that people are just trading these things like like Pokemon, and and find stuff that works best for the use case that you want.
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What’s On My Mind: Hot Takes on AI Congressional Hearing
I took a few hours to read the Congressional testimony of Sam Altman, Gary Marcus, and Christina Montgomery in depth, which you can find here. It’s always challenging reading Congressional testimony, mainly because senators spend so much time posturing in their questions that half the transcript is usually a waste. Maybe I need to write a prompt that distills down senatorial questions to just their raw question and preserves the answers of witnesses in full to make the transcripts more bearable.
Anyway, I have some in-depth thoughts about the way some AI leaders and elected officials are thinking about AI and… I’m not super encouraged. First, a few folks have asked why AI business leaders are calling for regulation. It’s not entirely altruistic; some of the suggestions like a regulatory body would inherently benefit those companies with deep pockets to be able to comply with regulations, squeezing out smaller competitors. As with all things governmental and political, any time someone’s lobbying for something, you should spend some time thinking about what’s in it for them.
On the topic of regulating models, that ship has largely sailed. With so many excellent and ever-evolving open source models, the door to regulating the models themselves has closed.
It’s really important to distinguish models from fine-tunes, which is a key point that was entirely omitted in the Congressional testimony. Regulating models themselves won’t change the impact that fine tuning has in terms of potential harm AI can do.
Let me explain in terms of pizza. Building a model is like baking a pizza from scratch – and I mean, all the way from scratch. You have to grow a field of wheat, harvest it, dry it, mill it, and turn it into flour. You have to grow tomatoes. You have to mine salt. You have to dig a well for water. You have to grow a field of sugar cane or raise bees or something for the sweetener if you use that. You have to grow grazing land to raise cows to get the milk you need for cheese. Baking a pizza from literal scratch would be an enormous, expensive enterprise.
A fine-tune is like taking the pizza that already exists, like one of those store-bought pizza kits, and adjusting the proportions of the ingredients. Maybe you add a bunch of chili flakes to it – that will dramatically change the pizza and how it tastes, but it doesn’t change the underlying model very much. You can do a lot of harm to someone by giving them a super spicy pizza, even if the base pizza was harmless, or giving them a pizza with toppings that they’re allergic to. The base pizza isn’t to blame, but it was part of the delivery mechanism of the harmful impact.
Here’s why this is important. Building a model is incredibly resource intensive. You need massive amounts of compute power, time, properly-labeled data, and human resources to produce the base model. This limits the production of these large language models to big tech companies. On the other hand, fine-tuning a model can be done by you or me with nothing more than a gaming laptop. Going back to our pizza analogy, it’s the difference between the entire supply chain needed to make the pizza, and you or me just sprinkling a handful of store-bought chili flakes on it.
The potential for harm can come from the model, or it can come from the fine tuning of the model. Regulating models will in no way solve the fine tuning issue, and there isn’t a legitimately sensible way to do so that doesn’t basically require government surveillance of literally everyone.
Why? Because some of the best models now are open-source models, models that literally anyone – you, me, the dog – can download. You can download them for free and use them today, and they’re very good as is, but you can also fine tune them on your own to do exactly what you want them to do. In terms of regulating models, the horse has left the barn.
So that key takeaway – that the powers that be are discussing regulating something that’s already happened and can’t be taken back – is critical to understanding where the government – in this case, the USA government – is in their understanding of AI. The USA is behind, far behind the EU, and far behind the tech community, and they need to catch up quickly or else they’ll be legislating for problems that no longer exist.
The second major area where there was a lot of discussion was around liability. We’ve established now that AI created content is, in the USA, ineligible for copyright because it was not made by humans, and copyright law applies only to human-made creations. The big question now is, who is liable for an AI model’s output? We have a couple of precedents here that we could look to, and none of them are an exact fit.
Full disclosure, I am not and have never been a lawyer, and I cannot give legal advice. If you need a lawyer who specializes in AI, go look up my friend Ruth Carter. They do AI law.
The first precedent is the copyright one. Because machines are ineligible for copyright, this implies that their output has no rights, and in a sense then no responsibility for what they create either. This makes a good deal of sense. If a machine spits out, say, racist content, by itself it hasn’t done anything wrong. Someone else today has to take that content and publish it, distribute it, do something with it, and it’s that action which could be in violation of the law.
The second precedent, and one which came up a lot in the hearings, was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This law essentially indemnifies carriers for the content that goes over their networks. For example, T-Mobile, my mobile company, has no legal responsibility for what I do with my devices on their network. If I distribute illegal content, they cannot be sued for my actions. This act is what has caused social media to be such a dumpster fire; companies like Twitter and Facebook have no legal liability for what people post on those networks. In the USA, the Supreme Court just upheld this, so there’s little chance of that changing any time soon.
So when a machine does something wrong, who owns the mistake? The current thinking – unsurprisingly by big tech companies – is that they are not at fault for what their models create. I can see this point; an automaker is not liable for an accident that I cause unless it can be proven that there’s some defect in the car or the car maker failed to warn vehicle owners that doing something dumb would cause a crash. However, the loophole there is that automakers have safety standards they have to adhere to. AI does not, and thus, the comparison of AI models to automakers isn’t really compelling. If we had standards for which models had to comply, then you could indemnify AI model creators if someone used that model in a way that was not intended.
The law around AI in general is still largely unsettled and will definitely change over time; right now, no one really has solid answers to much of anything. The key takeaway for us as end users of AI is to treat it like a chainsaw. Ask yourself the golden question of AI: what could go wrong? What are the risks if an AI deployment goes off the rails? Just as it’s a bad idea to use a chainsaw to, say, do surgery, there are plenty of use cases where you shouldn’t use AI, like hiring and firing.
Speaking of which, employment was another major area where the folks asking the questions didn’t really know what the questions were that they were asking, and even the AI experts didn’t have solid answers. No one does, though economists estimate between 30-50% of jobs will be impacted, perhaps even lost to AI over time, as well as creation of lots of new jobs, most of which we can’t even imagine right now. I’m a lot more optimistic about this right now than I was a few weeks ago.
Here’s why: the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cotton go from a pain in the ass crop to a hugely profitable one. The net effect of the cotton gin was a dramatic increase in the farming and picking of cotton, powered mostly through slavery in the Southern USA. That’s right – a technological change created a massive boom in the slave trade (which to be clear is awful).
But the key point is that an asymmetry in labor in part of the supply chain had dramatic effects on the rest of it (as well as terrible human costs). It’s probable that we’ll see AI impacts having asymmetric labor effects as well. Think about it for a second; if we mandate, even internally, that human editors need to fact check what AI is creating, then yes, we lose a lot of writers. But as AI scales up, we suddenly need a lot more editors. These are ordered effects; the first order effect is to reduce the number of writers. The second order effects in this example is to increase the number of editors because instead of having 10 articles a day to edit, editors suddenly have 10,000.
This is a critical point to think about in your own information supply chain: if you use AI to scale certain parts, where are the next logical bottlenecks that you’ll need more resources to successfully harness the outputs of AI?
The final area of discussion, and one that was largely fruitless, was about AI safely and morals. This is an area fraught with problems because no one can agree on what is moral. Think about it for a second. Even in a relatively homogenous culture, there are still major disagreements about what is right and wrong. Whose morals are correct? Christians? Muslims? Buddhists? Atheists? Satanists? Who decides what is right and wrong? We live in a world now where there’s such hyper-partisanship and polarization of opinion on literally everything that we can’t agree on anything. We fight over cartoon depictions of candy, for goodness’ sake.
What we do know about AI models is that they’re trained on our data. Copyrighted or not, if it’s publicly visible, at least one of the major AI models has been trained on it. That means that all our foibles and flaws are in these models as well. Everything good about us, everything bad about us, everything that encompasses humanity is in these models to some degree – and that means vastly conflicting morals. It’s impossible and will remain impossible for us to create these same universal AI models that have any kind of morality – especially as we continue to churn out more and more disinformation.
For example, Russian propagandists are doing their level best to pollute the Internet with as much anti-Ukrainian content as possible. Hundreds of attempts by Russian saboteurs have been made to create code in Twitter’s now open-source recommendation algorithms to classify anything Ukrainian as government-sponsored propaganda and reduce its visibility. Some of that garbage – and it is garbage, let’s be clear – will inevitably find its way into large language models, the same way that other hate speech does.
What’s the solution here? This is one area where the witnesses and the elected officials were in general agreement, and I’m in agreement with them: radical transparency. If an organization is publishing an AI model, it must disclose fully and publicly what that model was trained on in a very granular fashion. Not “trained on thousands of books”, but the specific books and editions. Not “social media discussions”, but which specific posts.
We don’t accept nutrition labels any more, especially in places like the EU, where you just don’t bother disclosing information. You’re required to disclose specifics. The same should be true of AI models as well as fine-tuned models. Someone who’s doing fine-tuning should equally be required, if the model is going to be made available for commercial or public use, to disclose everything in the fine tuning dataset so that we can all see exactly what the model is learning.
This is how we’ll solve some of the liability issues around AI as well. Right now, we don’t know how models were trained, so we can’t realistically say whether a model should be liable for its output. But if we require full disclosure of the data a model was trained on, we can absolutely hold accountable a tech company for training on content that’s harmful, false, etc. We could mandate, for example, the exclusion of patently false and wrong information (like content claiming the Earth is flat when it is verifiably not flat) – and companies which do not exclude that information in their training datasets would be more liable for the things their models do wrong.
This is where some of the cottage industries are going to spring up around AI, opportunities for businesses and savvy entrepreneurs to make a lot of money:
There’s money to be made, especially for folks who have backgrounds in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), to help audit models – especially the training data that goes into models.
There’s money to be made in the auditing processes themselves.
There’s money to be made in monitoring models and doing independent third party validation of model outputs.
There’s HUGE money to be made in curating training datasets that meet specific standards – voluntary standards at first, until the industry or the government gets it together.
There’s money to be made in the national security and policy implications of widespread use of large language models, particularly around propaganda and disinformation.
AI is an incredibly powerful tool that has no manual and no guidelines right now. If we want to continue making use of its power, we need to better understand its capabilities and regulate the inputs and outputs – what goes into making AI and how people use it – for us to succeed with it in the long term. As we have seen with hostile foreign powers like Russia, there are already attempts to use it to subvert nations and cause tremendous damage with it, so the sooner we figure things out, the better.
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Over the past week, I’ve had a chance to talk about AI – generative AI in particular – in several different industries, like healthcare, consulting, education, entertainment, and marketing. In all these different cases, there’s been a common, unsurprising thread: a significant amount of resistance by a portion of the audience. Not to me, not to the material, but to the very concept of generative AI itself.
Here are a few anonymized discussion points:
AI isn’t as good as what humans can create
AI will make us all lazy and incompetent
AI is going to cause mass layoffs
Let’s dig into a few of these points and present what we can for a balanced perspective on them.
AI isn’t as good as what humans can create
The blanket statement that AI isn’t as good as what humans create comes from a place of fear, fear that machines will in fact take many of the good paying creative jobs. As with all these statements, there’s nuance to it. Let’s say that quality of work is a normal distribution, a bell curve. Where does AI fall on that bell curve?
Based on stuff like what ChatGPT comes up with – especially with good, complex prompts – I think it’s fair to say that large language models create good content. Not great, not amazing, not Pulitzer Prize winning, but good. The tools are better than mediocre, which is where they were a year ago, and they’re certainly better than the word salad they spit out three years ago.
So the question for creators is, where are you individually on the bell curve? Are you a good creator? Then AI is your peer in terms of content quality. Are you a great creator? Then AI is your lesser. Are you a mediocre creator? Then AI is your better.
Here’s the question we have to ask, as human creators: does the work we do merit great, amazing, or Pulitzer Prize-winning capabilities? For some things, like our next book, I’d argue yes, we need great quality. For a press release? Good quality is probably, well, good enough.
The true challenge we human creators have to face isn’t AI today. It’s how fast AI is progressing. Three years ago, generative AI was pretty bad. Half the time, it was like watching chimpanzees play Scrabble. But there were glimmers, particularly on highly-templated content, that generative AI had promise.
Today, large language models create good content. They knock out press releases. They create competent, informative blog posts. They write moderately compelling emails. That’s how fast they’ve evolved in three years. How fast have your skills grown in that same time? That’s the challenge we face. Those of you who are great content creators, what will it take for you to become amazing? Those of you who are amazing, what will it take for you to create content at top-tier award winning levels?
AI will make us lazy and incompetent
The second claim that AI will make us lazy and incompetent has some truth to it as well. How many people under the age of 30 feel confident in their ability to navigate to an unknown destination using only a paper map? Fewer than those who feel confident in doing so with a map application on their smartphones. How many people feel confident looking up a topic in a hardcover encyclopedia? Fewer than those who feel confident Googling for something.
There’s absolutely no question that technology has changed how we think, how we work, how we get things done. We have, without reasonable doubt, lost some skills along the way. We’ve replaced map reading with map application navigation. We’ve replaced memorizing friends’ phone numbers with contact files on our smartphones. But in doing so, we’ve freed up good chunks of our cognitive capacity to do other things.
People – and all life, really – will always default to doing things as easily as possible, with as little effort as possible. That’s nature. Natural selection favors those who can conserve resources over those who expend them fruitlessly. Anything we can do to make things better, faster, or cheaper, we do. The role of AI in that scenario should be obvious: we will use it to do less, to defer more to machines.
This is not new. This is a tale as old as time. We invented stone tools so we could stop using our hands to dig in the dirt. We created machines to do heavy labor so we wouldn’t have to. In the same way that machines alleviated much of our strain in the Industrial Revolution, AI will do the same in the Intelligence Revolution. And just as those revolutions allowed us to benefit more broadly in the past, so will that also happen in the present.
This particular argument is behind some of what I think are the dumbest moves you can make. In school after school, office after office, I see people sticking their heads in the sand. They’re pretending AI doesn’t exist – from the Writer’s Guild of America to the local high school. I got an email the other day from our local school announcing the ban of ChatGPT and reassuring parents it had been blocked on the school’s Internet. Never mind standalone services like GPT4ALL that can run locally on your computer without Internet access at all, clearly the folks who have implemented these rules don’t understand how smartphones work.
Prohibiting some people from using AI and permitting others to use it only creates more fractures and divisions in society. If we want an equitable, fair society, we need to make sure everyone has equal access to powerful tools and equal access for how to use them well. If we want a just and moral society, we need to ensure people learn morals and justice alongside the tools, not forbidding the use of the tools and then wondering why human nature leads people to misuse the tools they stumbled upon with no guidance at all.
AI will cause mass layoffs
Will it all be smooth going? Of course not. More and more labor economists, partnering with AI thought leaders, are estimating that AI will consume 30% or so of current jobs. I think that’s on the low side, personally. I feel like the figure is probably closer to 50%. But just as the vast majority of the workforce labored in fields three hundred years ago and very, very few people comparatively do so now, so will we expect to see similar shifts in knowledge work. What those new jobs will be, we don’t know.
This statement I think is the most true of the three. AI will cause substantial changes in labor, in how we do work. And those changes will have substantial economic impacts, impacts that we are underestimating right now. Whether it’s 5%, 30%, 50%, the percentages don’t matter as much as the recognition that change is happening right now in a giant way, and the sooner we recognize it, the sooner we can do something about it.
Some of those solutions may be things like universal basic income, funded by “robot taxes”. The implementation of that is still murky, but it’s clear that any profession which uses language or creativity – and let’s face it, that’s a lot of professions – will be significantly impacted by AI, especially in capitalist economies where AI leads to dramatic increases in profitability when used effectively, at the expense of wages and workers.
Other solutions will be all about the integration and supervision of AI by humans. This is critically important and harkens back to point 2: people do tend to take the path of least resistance. Having humans continue to be fact checkers, supervisors, conductors of the machine orchestra if you will, will be our most important roles because machines are only as good as the data they’re trained on. And let’s face it, a lot of what’s on the Internet is crap. Any implementation of AI which promises to be turnkey, fire and forget is likely dangerous. You wouldn’t just send your self driving car out for a Sunday drive without you in it, right? Nor should you just deploy AI and then forget about it.
Are the reasons for opposition of AI that we started with valid? Yes and no. There are real concerns underlying those reasons. There are real viewpoints that need to be acknowledged and addressed, and real nuances that we need to communicate. There are also plenty of bad actors who will misuse AI in every way possible, and we need to be prepared for that as well. The only way to accomplish all this is with human integration at every opportunity and a willingness to intentionally sacrifice some efficiency, some effectiveness, some profitability, to ensure a balanced use of AI that’s more beneficial than harmful.
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Xiaoli asks, “If something is done by AI, can a company still claim that the output belongs to them?”
In this episode, I address a question about whether a company can claim ownership of content generated by AI. From a legal standpoint, according to the US Copyright Office, content created by machines is ineligible for copyright as it is not made by humans. However, practically speaking, it depends on the tools and models used in the creation process. There are detection tools available to refute a claim if the content was copy-pasted from a machine-generated source. Still, if the content was originated by AI but written by a human, it’s difficult for the tool to pick that up. Moreover, if a company is using a fine-tuned model customized for them, detecting it’s going to be almost impossible because the model sounds a lot like the company’s voice. Although taking a company to court to prove that they are claiming ownership of AI-generated content might be very expensive and not worth it. So, yes, a company can claim ownership of AI-generated content, but whether it’s true or not is debatable.
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You Ask, I Answer: Company Claims of AI Generated Content?
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Christopher Penn 0:00
In today’s episode jaldi asks, if something is done by AI? Can a company still claim that the output belongs to them? So this is a question of practicality.
Legally, and fair warning, I’m not a lawyer, my friend Ruth Carter, who runs geek law firm.com is a lawyer that specializes in AI.
Legally, according to the US Copyright Office, content created by machine is ineligible for copyright.
It may not be copyrighted, because a human did not make it.
Now, from a practical perspective, Could you demonstrate, you know, in a court of law, that a company used a machine to generate content? It depends, it depends on on the tools available and what model was used to make it.
For example, if a company had someone, say a junior person, just copy and paste something straight out of ChatGPT.
Yeah, a good number of detection tools exist that you could refute a claim that a company is saying that this content is theirs by saying no, that’s pretty clearly machine generated.
If on the other hand, though, the content was originated by AI, but a human being wrote it, it’d be very hard for that tool to pick that up, even though it was created by artificial intelligence.
So it depends on how AI is involved in the creation process.
It also depends on the model being used.
Again, if you’re using the stock off the shelf, ChatGPT instance uses GPT-3 point five or GPT-4 point oh, there are predictable statistical distributions.
And the way it writes that make it easy to detect, right, there’s just a function of how the model is trained and how it works.
If you use a different model, say you use stable LM, or llama, or alpaca or if Hakuna or any of the open source models, a lot of the tools that have been built to detect the use of AI will not work nearly as well on those models.
And again, these are just the off the shelf vanilla models that you get when you download these pieces of software.
If a company is using a fine tuned model that’s customized for them, detecting that it’s going to be almost impossible if the model was trained well detecting is gonna be almost impossible because a fine tuned model, right, so much like the source material, because it’s been told to bias itself at its output based on the source material.
So if you’re, if your company has a brand style guide, and a couple of 100 blog posts, that are of a consistent voice, when that gets turned into a fine tuning regimen for a large language model, the model is going to adapt and sound a lot like you a lot like you.
And as a result, a company might be able to claim Well, yeah, that we wrote this, whether they did or not, whether they use machines or not, they could make that claim.
And because the existing tools to prove to disprove that claim would fail, it will be very challenging for someone other than a company insider to say no to a machine made that not not a human.
And then there’s again, the practicality side of it.
If a company uses a tool like ChatGPT, to put up say a blog post to an e book or something.
And they claim that the output is theirs, even though it’s machine made a who is going to go through the expense of taking them to court to prove that.
And b What’s the value in doing that? What is the value to a competitor may be doing that, chances are a lot of the time it’s just not going to be worth it.
Right.
The only cases I can think of where you’d want to really throw down is if you had an axe to grind with that company.
Or if there were it was part of a much bigger set of issues that you are taking them to court for anyway.
That’s the trick with all anything legal in order for there to be enforcement.
In order for something to have legal standing, you got to go to court, and that costs a lot of money.
Lawyers are not cheap, understandably so.
And is it worth it? Is it worth it to take a company to court because you think they’re their most recent set of blog posts were AI generated? Probably not.
It’s probably not worth the time and effort unless you have an axe to grind and you want to drag them through court just to cost them a whole bunch of money.
In that case, it might be worth it.
I don’t know.
So, to answer the question, yes, a company can claim something.
Whether it’s true or not, is debatable.
But proving that could be very expensive.
So I suspect in a lot of cases for especially for low risk stuff like marketing content, people probably aren’t going to bother.
We we would all settle for market Be content that doesn’t suck but that’s the answer thanks for the question and talk to you soon if you’d like this video go ahead and hit that subscribe button
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Karolina asks, “What in your opinion should be done for generative AI not to go too far? how can we take benefits but within control?”
In this video, I discuss the topic of regulating generative AI, which is a challenging issue. We can’t turn off the technology, nor can we regulate it through a central authority because of the proliferation of freely downloadable open source models. Instead, we need to focus on regulating outcomes and enforcing existing laws to penalize people who misuse AI for illegal activities. For example, we could add extra punishment for crimes committed using AI. Overall, it’s a heavy topic that needs careful consideration, and I believe that regulating the technology itself may not be effective. If you want to know more, watch the full video and hit that subscribe button if you like it.
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Christopher Penn 0:00
In today’s episode, Karolina asks, What in your opinion should be done for generative AI not to go too far, how can we take benefits but within control? It depends on what you mean by control.
Right? If you mean the ability to turn these things off, to stop use them, we’re past that point, if you mean the ability to regulate them, through a central authority, like a company like open AI, we’re past that point too, because there’s now a wave of freely downloadable open source models that are very high quality.
I talked about this in a recent episode of my newsletter, based on Facebook’s llama or stable LM open source models that are in the wild that you can download and put on your computer today.
And no one can control that system.
Right? No one can control you having that software or not.
So that’s largely moot.
The reality is that large language models are here to stay.
And that the technology itself really can’t be regulated.
Because it’s now so open, you can download one of the base models, and then fine tune it, train it to do whatever you want it to do.
You could train it to only do clam chowder recipes, right? You could train it to spew hate, you could train it to create propaganda and misinformation.
And because these models all are small enough, and today’s personal computers, your gaming laptop is powerful enough to do that fine tuning, there really is no way to regulate that right? Any more than you can regulate how someone’s going to use a chainsaw, right? Yeah, you can put safety warnings all over it, and stuff.
But if somebody wants to go off Friday, the 13th on on somebody else with a chainsaw.
There’s not really anything that a chainsaw maker can do to stop somebody from doing that.
Right.
So what do we do? What we do is we look at the outcomes, and we regulate the outcomes.
For example, in the USA, which is where I’m based, we have laws that add essentially more penalties onto a crime if that crime was done within a certain context.
For example, we have a category called hate crimes where if you commit a crime, there’s a sort of base level of punishment for that.
And then if it can be proven in a court of law, that it was a hate crime that you did that crime because of the person’s race, or sexual orientation, or veteran status or disability, you get extra punishment, you get extra punishment, on top of the punishment you’ve already gotten.
And so having laws that would essentially restrict what people do with these models, would be the way to go.
And we’re not talking about saying you can’t write certain things, whatever we’re talking about, essentially things that are already against the law, just in a enforcing those laws, which is a whole separate conversation, and be maybe adding an extra bonus penalty for if you use machines to do it, perhaps at scale.
So for example, fraud is illegal.
scamming somebody out of money, illegal, if you used, say, a machine to synthesize someone’s voice to create a fake ransom call.
That’s still illegal.
This is more illegal.
And so you could add a penalty saying if you if you misuse technology, in addition to the 25 years of jail time, you’re going to get for fraud for in this case, I’m just making up these numbers.
You would then say, and we’re going to add an extra 10 on 10 years of penalty on to this because you use AI to do it.
Right? So it’s kind of like, well, I mean, there are there are many different laws that have multipliers or variables that change the severity of the punishment.
If we want AI to succeed, if we want AI to be useful, when we want people to not abuse it, we have to a enforce the laws we already have, which is always a always a treat, and do so in a in a coherent, consistent way.
Meaning that some people don’t get a pass because of their background or who they know or how much they bribe the judge and be considering multipliers on existing laws to say like, yeah, use AI to do this, the crime is worse, right? We consider the crime to be worse, therefore the punishment is worse.
That’s what we can do.
Because we cannot control the mechanisms of self any more than you could control spreadsheets.
Right? If you think about if you use a spreadsheet to commit a crime, you can’t just turn off spreadsheets.
It’s impossible, right? You there’s just no way for you to stop people from using spreadsheets.
There’s open source ones is Google Sheets is Microsoft Excel.
And yeah, Microsoft could maybe turn off your specific copy of Excel, if they had the license information, but it just download, download OpenOffice, or Libre Office Online free runs on your computer very capable.
And now the person’s got a spreadsheet.
And if you didn’t want them to have a spreadsheet, you’re kind of out of luck.
But you can say, yeah, if you use the spreadsheet to commit this crime, we’re going to add an extra five years of penalty, you know, or whatever the however the legal system works in that country.
That’s essentially where we are today, with large language models with generative AI, in general, is saying, yeah, the tools are out there.
Now we got to regulate how people use them in and make clear there are criminal penalties for misusing them.
Not the general misuse of them.
But if you’re committing a crime, if you just use AI for it, we’re just going to make the penalty worse.
So that’s it.
It’s a heavy topic to talk about.
And it’s one that I feel like a lot of governments, a lot of legislators a lot of elected officials do not understand.
And they will propose legislation that is impossible to enforce.
And so, like many other things, they’ve tried to legislate and very difficult to enforce.
Regulation of this technology itself probably is not going to be super successful.
Anyway, that’s the answer, or at least that’s my answer to the question.
Thanks for asking.
I will talk to you soon.
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Omar asks, “Is there a limit to the capability of large language models?”
In this video, I answer Omar’s question about the limitations of large language models. While there are certainly limitations to any technology, the limitations of large language models occur in a few different areas. One limitation is in the training data used to build the model or fine-tune it. Closed source models may also impose limitations on what they can do. Another limitation is in the quality of the prompt that the user provides, as less skilled users may get lower quality results. Lastly, large language models still struggle with reasoning and abstract thinking. It’s important to know the limitations of the specific model being used and to work around them to succeed in the use of large language models.
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Christopher Penn 0:00
In today’s episode, Omar asks, is there a limit to the capability of large language models? Well, yes, of course, there’s there’s limitations to any kind of technology.
The limitations occur in a couple of different places.
So the first place, a limitation occurs on a large language model really is on the training data on how the model was made, what content was used to build that model or fine tune it.
And depending on whose model you’re using, this might not even be clear, right? When you look at something like stable LM stable LM uses the pile, which is a data repository created by the Ulithi AI.
And so it’s pretty clear what’s in the pile and what’s not.
So if there’s content that you’re creating that was not in the pile, the model is gonna have a harder time generating that.
Other models, like, for example, the GPT family from OpenAI.
We don’t know what’s in there.
We don’t know what’s in there.
So we don’t really know what his limitations are, we do know there are certain prompts that work better and worse.
And that’s likely reflected in the fact that the content that’s in there is kind of a mishmash, we don’t really know for sure, what it does and does not know.
So that’s one aspect of limitations.
The second set of limitations are actively imposed limitations, there are limitations that model makers, particularly closed source models, put on their models so that they can’t do certain things.
If you were to ask, OpenAI how to in the ChatGPT interface, how to make a certain type of homemade chemistry experiment that you under no circumstances should do at home, you will say, Hey, I can’t do that, right? Even things that seem innocuous, like saying, hey, I need to, I’m getting ready to do a roast for my friend’s thing or a bachelorette party.
I need you to write 20 insults about my friend and lets the software say nope, you we can’t do that that’s not respectful.
We should always treat people with respect and kindness.
Well, yes, that’s true in the abstract, but in reality, I’m trying to have some light hearted fun, I’m going to friend’s bachelorette party and the software is not helping.
So those that’s an example of a imposed limit on the systems and there are many.
And, again, with closed source models, in particular, we don’t know what those limitations are, until we hit them until we run face first into them.
The third place that has limitations is us, the people, the operators, right.
So the models are very capable, us less.
So the quality of your prompt matters a great deal for being able to determine what output you get, whether the output is any good, whether it’s usable or not.
And people who are less skilled at writing prompts are going to get lower quality results.
So it’s not necessarily the model this capability is limited is the person’s capability to get useful information out of a model.
That is that can be challenging.
And finally, of course, there’s the the inherent technical limitations of the models.
Today, large language models still struggle with reasoning they still struggle with, with true logic.
Everything that they do is probability based, which means that abstract thinking and abstract reasoning is just not in the cards because by definition that goes against probabilities, right? If you ask somebody to create something that’s never been seen before, the way a human does that is going to be very different than the way a machine does that now machines will probably not do that nearly as well, because they still need to draw upon knowledge of what has gone previously, instead of being able to create something that is truly net new.
That’s a limitation of the fact that that’s how artificial intelligence models work.
So there’s a lot of different limitations on these models.
And the limitations vary from model to model.
Stable LM has fewer limitations than GPT-4.
Llama, the there wasn’t snoot.
snoozy, the 13 billion llama derivative that has fewer limitations and stable LM.
So there’s a lot of these different models that are out there that have greater or fewer restrictions based on their architecture, how they were made, the types of prompts they need.
So there’s, it really depends, it depends on the model, we used to be sort of a one trick pony world, right? Everybody used ChatGPT, those days are gone.
Now.
It’s like saying this car is on the road, right? And you might some people might have a Ferrari, some people might have a Tesla, some people might have Hyundai.
And it varies, it’s gonna vary.
So there are limitations.
The limitations you should be concerned about are the ones that are inherent to the model that you’re using.
So getting to know the model that you’re using and being skilled at knowing what his limitations are, and working around them is really a critical skill to be able to succeed in the use of large language models.
Good question.
Thanks for asking.
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Manuel asks, “Hey Christopher, how do you think sales-roles will be affected by GPT models, especially after they are trained on lead gen and sales data?”
In this episode, I answer a question about how GPT models will affect sales roles, particularly after they are trained on lead generation and sales data. Large language models have some usefulness in any place in the sales process that uses language. The question is, which places are the ones that will have the biggest impact? One is administrative, where a large language model can interface in a sales CRM and update it using a voice interface. This will save salespeople a lot of time and make sales managers happy that they can get their people to update the CRM. Crafting content to sales prospects is another area where language models can be useful, particularly in finding language patterns and distributions that work best. Personality analysis is also essential, where a large language model can interpret language and see where people are, which is critical in the sales process. The short answer is that wherever language is used in the sales process, particularly in areas where salespeople have trouble, language models can help patch those areas faster and improve their baseline skills. There’s a tremendous benefit to be had in using these models, and sales teams can use their data to guide the use of these models and even customize them to their specific sales process.
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Christopher Penn 0:00
In today’s episode, Manuel asks, hey Christopher, how do you think sales roles will be affected by GPT? Models, especially after they are trained on lead generation and sales data? This is a good question.
This is a on the surface an easy question to answer.
Any place you use language, a large language model is going to have some usefulness any place in the sales process or the sales role that use language.
So where do you use language in sales? Pretty much everywhere, right? There’s emails, there’s pitches, there’s pitch decks, there’s sales collateral, the sales enablement tools, there’s putting notes in your CRM, there’s speaking the people on the phone, any place that use language is a place where a large language model can have some impact.
Now the question is, which places are the ones that you’re gonna get the biggest bang for your buck.
And there’s really a few different spots.
One is administrative.
I’m guilty of this.
I don’t like updating the sales CRM, my I, I do it because I have to.
But when I worked in sales, it was my least favorite part of the job administratively just boring to just go in and click on stuff, having a large language model interface in a sales CRM and just be able to say, hey, update this account, update TrustInsights.ai AI said the deal size to $50,000.
Next, check in will be two weeks from now.
They’re not ready to buy yet.
And then having the model interpret that and then update the CRM.
Huge, that’d be huge.
Some companies, Salesforce and Hubspot, they’re already doing integrations similar to that now they’re all very in alpha, right? They’re not ready for primetime yet, but they’re going that way.
Just that alone, is would be enough to to dramatically change the role of sales, tying it to a voice interface.
That would be a game changer, that would be a substantial competitive advantage for the to the first CRM that can do that.
Because if you’re gonna open up a memo on your phone and say, Oh, hey, I just met with Bob at Trust Insights.
And, yeah, it looks like they’re going to do they want to do something, but probably not till next quarter, and then have the model interpret that and update the CRM, that salesperson, you know, that could be driving from from appointment to appointment, they could be on the phone, they could be working from home, but boy, they could save a lot of time, a lot of time, by having natural language interfaces to their software, and sales managers would be like, this is fantastic, I can actually get my people to update the CRM now.
Right.
So that’s a big one.
The crafting of content to sales prospects, that’s again, a pretty easy one, particularly if there are there are language patterns and distributions that you understand, work and don’t work, right.
One of the things that people have tried for years and relatively little success, is to understand if certain language works better in in the sales process than others, right, we have a star salesperson is does the language they use matter? And could other people use that language and get some success out of it.
And up until now, the tools didn’t really exist for you to be able to do that kind of large scale analysis, but now they do.
And so you might be able to come up with a writing style that resonates with people.
One thing that I think it’d be particularly interesting to see is people creating language model interfaces that can interpret someone else’s writing style and help you write similar to them, because we all love hearing ourselves, right? I mean, yes, there are exceptions.
But generally speaking, we feel more comfortable with people who sound like us, right? Who think like us, that’s just human nature.
And so if a tool can take an email from a one kind of personality and transmute it to another personality type, it might be better received, particularly in early communications.
That might be a way to approach it.
You could also do the personality analysis directly on the prospect as you get communications from them, feed it to a large language model and say, Hey, analyze this person’s personality.
Tell me about their extraversion.
Tell me about their openness, and so on and so forth.
And that personality analysis might be useful to you as a salesperson to say, Okay, here’s how maybe I want to approach this person.
Maybe I don’t want to go in all guns blazing, say, hey, if I got a deal for you, when that person from personality perspective, might not resonate with that, you might solve something more tentative, like so tell me what’s going on.
What are what are the things that are frustrating you right now, right? There are some people who resonate with that first pitch.
There are some people who will resonate with that second pitch other people like You don’t my therapists just sell me the things I can get on with my day.
So having large language models that can interpret language and see where people are, is going to be critical.
All of this stuff is based on language.
It’s on how we use language.
So the short answer to Manuel’s question really is wherever it is used language in the sales process, particularly if there are spots that you personally have trouble, that you’re not as strong in the sales process.
That’s where language models will help.
And I think it will help salespeople who are deficient in some areas, patch those areas faster, and get up to speed faster, so that they’re their baseline skills are improved.
And I think that’s there’s a tremendous benefit to be had there.
But yeah, the the data that sales teams have, can be used to really guide the use of these models, and even customize them, you can customize them to your specific sales process, maybe even your personal selling method.
So something to keep an eye on as as time goes on.
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In this video, I answer a question from a viewer who wants to know how to determine whether content has been created by AI or by a human. While there are tools available online that can detect language patterns of generic models, their quality is hit or miss, and they are tuned for the OpenAI family of models. With the proliferation of different models and variations, it will become more difficult to detect AI-generated content. Even if you use these tools, the result is not going to be reliable because of the wide range of statistical distributions. In some cases, it depends on the process, where AI is involved in the content creation process but not in the final step, which is done by a human. The best way to know if content was created by a machine or a human is to ask. Having policies in place in your company about the use of AI in content creation is also essential. As AI models continue to evolve, the use of detection algorithms will become less and less useful. Thank you for watching, and if you found this video helpful, please hit that subscribe button.
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In today’s episode shall Lee asks how can people determine whether some content is created by AI or human? So this is a very popular question understandably so.
And there are some tools out there that can detect some of the language patterns have generic models.
So, for example, if you were to type into, you know, AI content detector into Google, you’ll get a whole bunch of different web services that will say like we can detect AI content and plagiarism, the all this that and other stuff.
And these tools do that to a, a greater or lesser degree of success.
The reason they can do that is because there are predictable statistical distributions in the way that large language models like the GPT family that ChatGPT uses, that are detectable that are, you can find in the generic models.
So the generic model means someone using just off the shelf ChatGPT with no customizations, no plugins, no anything, it’s just the stock base model.
And the prompt they’re putting it is so generic, that the model is essentially writing doing most of the heavy lifting.
It’s funny, these tools, these detection tools, they are iffy in their quality.
I took a blog post that Katie and I had written for the Trust Insights newsletter and I, I fed it in and there are sections that were clearly marked, this section has been generated by AI and this section is not.
And one of the tools missed everything, completely missed it.
One of the tools marked everything as AI, even the parts that we know were human written.
And then two of the tools kinda halfway winged it right some what are the tools? More or less got it? Okay.
But none of them got it right.
None of them work.
Got it perfectly right.
Nolan said, Yep, this is the AI part.
This is the non AI part.
And that’s a problem.
Right? So these tools do exist.
Their quality right now is hit or miss.
And here’s the part that’s, that’s tricky.
They are tuned for the OpenAI family of models, so GPC 3.5 GPT-4.
With the release of Facebook’s llama large language models set into open source and the proliferation of dozens if not hundreds of variations.
These tools can’t do that anymore.
Maybe schools are incapable of detecting language created by different models have different model weights, different parameters, essentially all the different settings that these other tools use that will make their texts have statistically significant distributions but different distributions than OpenAI.
And so there really isn’t a way to ironclad detect the use of AI.
The other way that these tools will fall down is depends on the process.
So if you wrote an outline as your prompt, and you had ChatGPT Write out the post, there’s a decent chance that at least some of these tools would correctly identify it.
If you did it in reverse, you said OpenAI, you write the outline because I can’t think of what to write.
And once I have my prompts as a writer, I’ll do the writing.
These tools will not detect that usage of AI even though AI was involved in the content creation process.
The final step was done by human and those statistical distributions will not exist nearly as much or as strongly as a machine generated version.
So I would say the only surefire way to know whether content was created by machine or human is to ask if it’s if it’s content that you care about.
And if it’s your content, hopefully, you would know.
But if it’s content created by your company, having policies in place as to the situations in which AI is permissible to use or not permissible to use is, is critically important because these models will continue to evolve, right? Just the open source models alone are evolving so fast and getting such specific capabilities that the plagiarism detector does not plagiarism, the AI content generation detection algorithms are going to get less and less useful.
And here’s why.
If you take an open source model, and you tune it towards a very specific task, like just writing blog posts or just writing emails, what’s going to happen is those tools will have very different language distributions.
And so something looking for the generic model is not going to see that it will just miss it.
And, again, the fact that we see see so much innovation happening on the open source side means you’re gonna have dozens, if not hundreds of models to try and keep up with.
And you’re gonna as if you were marketing, you know, AI content detection software, you’re gonna have a real hard time doing that.
So that’s the answer.
The answer is there are tools, they’re unreliable, and they will continue to get to be unreliable, they’ll actually get less reliable over time as models proliferate.
The Good question though, thanks for asking.
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This week, let’s talk about what’s happening right now in generative AI, because it’s been a big week. Well, it’s been a big few weeks, so let’s go over what those developments mean. As you know, last fall, OpenAI released its language model interface, ChatGPT, that opened the door for non-technical users to be productive with large language models. The model – and remember in the context of AI, a model is just a fancy word for software – behind ChatGPT is a massive behemoth known originally as InstructGPT.
These models are large, very expensive to train, and costly to operate. For years, other developers and companies have tried making their own, but the costs of starting from scratch, assembling the massive quantities of data needed to train (build) a model, and deploying it are usually well out of reach of scrappy entrepreneurs. There have been many attempts and starts over the years but none have been able to perform as well as the big money models that big tech companies created. Thus, for many companies and many people like you and me, ChatGPT has been the only serious game in town.
Until about a month ago. Facebook/Meta released their own model, LLaMa, but in a different way than the other tech companies. Rather than give away an interface like Bing or Bard or ChatGPT, they released the underlying model, LLaMa, itself as non-commercial open source software. LLaMa is the same high quality as the other big tech models, but it’s available to many more people for free. This is a big deal because Facebook basically took this gigantic model trained on a trillion words and just… gave it away.
That was the first pebble in the avalanche.
In AI, there’s a concept called fine-tuning, where you take an existing model and tailor it to your needs. Remember that these language models don’t contain actual words. They contain mathematical probabilities about words, like a giant library of statistics about what words are near other words, what phrases are near other phrases, etc. A big public general model like the ones from OpenAI are gargantuan because they have to be a jack of all trades, kind of like the family dog. Part companion, part retriever, part guard dog, and not overly specialized at any one thing. When we want a language model to do one thing very specifically, we change the probabilities in its library to overly favor one thing over anything else. That’s like training a dog to specifically be a bomb sniffing dog; the dog will not be good at sniffing for drugs or earthquake survivors, and probably won’t be as suited for other general dog tasks.
Fine-tuning a model isn’t nearly as costly as building the model in the first place. If entrepreneurs and engineers wanted a custom model for a specific task, it’s far easier to fine tune an existing model, as long as the source model is high enough quality. And that’s what LLaMa is – a very high quality starting point for a lot of innovation that Facebook released to the world. Think of LLaMa like this: let’s pretend that generative AI is like pizza. Up until now, you had to order pizza delivery from OpenAI, right? Through ChatGPT and their APIs, they were the only game in town. You might have thought about making your own pizza from scratch, but for a variety of reasons – time, money, talent – you just didn’t. Along comes Facebook and LLaMa, which is like one of those pre-baked pizza kits. Now all you have to do is customize the very nice pre-made pizza with the toppings you want, but you don’t have to go through all the work of making the pizza from scratch.
In the several weeks since LLaMa came out, we have seen a massive explosion of new derived models, models that are very high performance but scaled to run on hardware as small as a hobbyist’s Raspberry Pi. The tuning capabilities are robust; we see models tuned specifically for tasks like research, healthcare advice, finance, and more. That’s what an open source model enables – massive variation, massive diversity in the space.
There are even projects to put these models on your laptop as private chat instances, like the GPT4ALL software. This looks and runs like ChatGPT, but it’s a desktop app that doesn’t need an internet connection once it’s set up and, critically, it does not share data outside your individual computer, ensuring privacy. Up until now, services like ChatGPT have sent your data to a third party company for use, which is why we’ve said you should never, ever use them with sensitive information. Now, that’s no longer the case – you can use GPT4ALL in complete privacy. It’s the best of both worlds – the performance and capabilities of a service like ChatGPT with ironclad privacy because the data – your data – never leaves your computer. That makes it ideal for industries like finance, healthcare, government – any place where you wouldn’t just want to hand over protected information willy nilly.
This has made big waves in the tech community; a post recently by a Google employee has made waves by declaring that neither Google nor OpenAI are paying enough attention to open source, and the open source movement is racing past the big tech players with their closed models. I agree with the engineer’s assessment; open source is a powerful movement that democratizes technology and makes it accessible to almost anyone. There’s a reason Linux – the open source operating system – power a majority of the public internet servers. It’s better, faster, more secure when operated correctly, and near zero cost. The same is now happening in AI.
Why did Facebook do this? Why did they give away such a valuable piece of intellectual property? Because they’re behind. Their most recent efforts in AI have not gone well. So rather than try to do it themselves, they’ve simply done the hard grind of assembling the model and then tossed it to the community, to the world, to do with as we please – and already, coders and developers have taken their excellent base model and made insane improvements in a very short time. There are advancements that take Facebook’s base model and tune it for chat, tune it to be multiple times faster, tune it to run on nearly any device. The community, in effect, did all of Facebook’s R&D for free.
So that’s what’s happening. Let’s talk about what this means, for marketing and for society overall. First, let’s dig into the marketing side. Previously, to deploy a large language model in a marketing context like a chatbot on your website, you pretty much had to pay the OpenAI tax and use their APIs if you wanted high quality output. With the release of LLaMa and the crazy number of free, open source models (including some derivatives that are licensed for commercial use), that’s no longer the case. Now, if you have the technical team in place, you can use an open source model and save yourself a big bucket of money.
Anyone who’s marketing software? Building a large language model into your software just got a whole lot easier and more privacy-compliant, not to mention nearly free. Instead of having to wrestle with commercial licensing and privacy controls, you can now just stuff an open source model into your software and run it locally with no privacy issues. OpenAI API fees? Those just went to zero for software companies. That’s a big win for software companies – especially scrappy startups – and for us consumers who use those products.
For marketers who are just getting used to ChatGPT, this is also a boon. You can have a model that runs on your desktop or laptop computer and has 95% of the performance of ChatGPT with none of the privacy issues – and has a stable underlying model that your company can control. If you’ve ever used ChatGPT after they upgrade the underlying model, you’ve probably noticed that once-reliable prompts get wonky for a little while. This explosion of open source models means you can freeze which model you’re using until you and your organization are ready to upgrade. It’s under your control, which is a big deal.
For marketers who work in regulated industries or secure workplaces that have been forbidden to use ChatGPT, this is now an avenue for you to approach your IT department and explain how this open source movement will let you have the benefits without the risks.
For marketers who have access to technical resources that can fine-tune these open source models, that’s where you’re going to see massive benefit. These models are relatively straightforward to fine-tune. (not easy, but simple) It’s now even easier to customize them to your company, to your needs, to fulfill specific tasks that your team needs to work on. If you recall from the keynote address I’ve given, the more fine-tuned a model is, the shorter and less cumbersome your prompts have to be. You can imagine a set of different task-based models available to you in your job.
And for marketers who are late to the game with large language models, this is unfortunately going to muddy the waters some because each model itself is different – including what prompts do and don’t work with them. Vicuna-13B or LLaMa-30B can operate as powerfully as ChatGPT’s GPT-3.5-Turbo model, but they have a different prompt structure, so you’ll want to pick a platform and learn it before hopping from platform to platform. My recommendation would be for a marketer just getting started to start with ChatGPT for a few months and then move to GPT4ALL with the Snoozy 13B model, as it’s very capable.
Now, let’s talk about the big picture, because it’s worth a discussion. The LLaMa model is incredibly powerful, on par with the GPT models from OpenAI. There are versions that have no restrictions of any kind on them, versions you can ask nearly any kind of question and get a coherent answer, even if that answer is horrifying. Software is inherently amoral. It’s a tool, and thus how that tool is used depends on who’s using the tool. Here’s an example, redacted, about making something you really shouldn’t make at home:
OpenAI will tell you absolutely not, under no circumstances will it answer this question. An unrestricted model gives you an answer (though it’s just as likely to be incorrect as ChatGPT).
There will be misuses of these open source models, just as there are people who use open source website software like Apache to run websites filled with hate and bigotry. These tools will enable content creation of all kinds, good and bad, and we need to be prepared for what that looks like. Here in the USA, next year is a presidential election year and I have absolutely no doubt that hostile parties like Russia will attempt to interfere in our elections (as they have in the past) using tools like these to create massive amounts of disinformation, manipulating easily-persuaded people.
But that would have happened anyway. A hostile nation-state like Russia has the resources to build custom models from scratch. These models just make the process faster for everyone, good and bad alike.
And these models, particularly the unrestricted ones, do enable greater positive uses as well. There’s some content that closed models like ChatGPT flat out will not create, even though that content might have legitimate artistic value, like explicit literature, or controversial writing about sensitive topics. Do people who want to write about those sorts of things have the right to do so? Yes. Can they with the current closed source ecosystems? No. So these models will enable that as well.
What we should expect to see, what we are already seeing, is a massive explosion in the use of large language models. We should expect to see these models showing up everywhere, embedded in software we use all the time – now made free and more accessible. I believe that will overall be a net positive, even though they come with significant downsides you just can’t hand-wave away. Like the Internet itself, like the smartphone, like the personal computer, this new generation of AI models amplifies humanity. What’s good about us becomes better, what’s bad about us becomes worse.
No matter what, the reality is that large language models are now very definitely here to stay. A company like OpenAI could go out of business. Now that open source software exists that is rich, robust, and capable, all the big AI companies could vanish tomorrow but the technology is available in everyone’s hands.
Finally, this also has one other major effect. Open source software is nearly impossible to regulate because in many cases, there’s no central entity in charge of it that has the power to turn it off. The Apache Foundation has zero ability to turn off anyone who’s using their software as a webserver. Mozilla can’t turn off Mozilla browsers around the world. The Linux Foundation has no control over millions of servers and desktops running the Linux OS. That means any legislation, any governmental regulation of large language models will need to focus on the effects, on the outputs, on what people do with the tools because it’s no longer possible to regulate the tools themselves. It’s highly likely legislators and elected officials don’t understand this at all, and they will need to, very soon.
The tidal wave of generative AI has picked up pace. We can either surf it, or drown in it, but either way, there’s no stopping it.
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