Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The phrase "#GarbageInGarbageOut" dates back to *1957*. That's how long we've known ...
The phrase "#GarbageInGarbageOut" dates back to *1957*. That's how long we've known that a computer that operates on bad data will barf up bad conclusions. But this is a very inconvenient truth for AI weirdos: having given up on manually assembling training data based on careful human judgment with multiple review steps, the AI industry "pivoted" to mass ingestion of scraped data from the whole internet.
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