"Using AI-generated data to train AI could introduce further errors into already error-prone models. Large language models regularly present false information as fact. If they generate incorrect output that is itself used to train other AI models, the errors can be absorbed by those models and amplified over time….Even worse, there’s no simple fix."
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GIGO. The internet is littered with false and incorrect info. These days, anyone can publish virtually anything they want w/o anyone overseeing whether it is correct. If someone does correct the posting, it is typically done in a subsequent post that still leaves the original incorrect post up and available to be scraped by search engines.
Some months back I had some back and forth with the General Editor of the our small, free local newspaper. They had published a letter to the editor that was factually incorrect. I asked why the paper did not add a comment that while they were publishing the letter to show the opinion of a reader, the information was incorrect? The person told me that it wasn't their job to correct letters to the editor. Which makes them part of the problem.
Given this reality, why is anyone surprised that ChatGPT, et al produces bad answers, since it obtained its "knowledge" by sucking in everything on the web without curation?
For me, the perfect music for concentration is the sound of silence. The older I get, the more I prefer silence. I was very happy when my health club eliminated the din of background music, recognizing that everyone was wearing headphones or earbuds and wasn't listening to THEIR choice of music anyway!
Taylor Swift is playing football stadiums, so the 10 million per concert doesn't really blow my mind. Not when you see what folks are paying to see Paul McCartney or Bruce Springsteen. Who are nostalgia acts who haven't been relevant in some time. Not dissing them, by relevant I mean dominating everything.
What does blow my mind? She's playing 5 dates in Los Angeles. Two dates in smaller cities like Minneapolis, KC, Cincinnati. I don't think anyone's ever done that. In my day (the Motor City) bands on huge tours like the Stones, the Who, Michael Jackson- one date per city. I can't speak for the metro areas like Los Angeles and NYC, but no way was it 5 dates. Juggernaut ain't the word.
Speaking of my day, my mom or dad would shlep us to classical concerts and musical, whether we wanted to go or not. But by the time I was old enough to say I wanted to go to a rock concert, it was my money. They weren't paying. Minimum wage jobs like bagging groceries and collecting shopping carts, being a lifeguard, busboy. We'd look at the concert schedule and carefully choose which bands we cared enough to pay for. Tix were a lot more affordable, even adjusted for inflation. Or as I read earlier today, Americans just haven't figured out that we're paying more for less, for just about everything under the sun.
Don't tell me the kids aren't spoiled these days. Hardly any of them work anymore, partially because "full-employment" now means adults working minimum wage dead-end jobs that teenagers used to fill.
Awesome article!! I don’t know how you manage to amass all this information, and stay on top of all these mind blowing trends, as you do. You really have to shake your head at all the absurdity modern advances are creating in this world. What was refreshing to see when I watched the videos on utube, was a gathering of 400 musicians performing, in unison, in remembrance of Chester of Linkin Park. Nice to see some things are still grassroots. Just sayin’.
Jaw dropping. We will see the cause and effect soon enough in the music world and after that there will need to be a new reality and business model. Such nonsense I was never prepared to see in my adult life!
So, I have over time determined that live performances from “old” musicians is not worth the ticket price. Especially if I already saw the act. Peter Gabriel is touring. I will not go. Overpriced and likely not going to live up to my previous attendance at a concert if his. I have seen jethro Tull in the 80’s. Peter Gabriel too. I stopped going to Rush concerts when they were still touring and alive as it just was not an enjoyable experience. Is that due to me not liking the musician’s new stuff of am I feeling they can’t pull off their old stuff? Both really maybe. I could write detailed concert reviews, but ultimately being disappointed in older act’s new lack of fidelity is why I give up. No old bands. None.
Hard to believe Woody Allen has anything on Hal Ashby (except notoriety, and a notorious reputation). Are any of the star couples in any Allen vehicle farther apart in age than Harold & Maude?
Nice to see sumo wrestlers get a mention (however tangentially) on this platform. Sumo is actually in a very exciting period of transition right now; as a generation of wrestlers that held sway at the top of the sport for over a decade have almost all retired; including the greatest grand champion (Yokozuna) of all recorded history, Hakuho. This makes room for the next cohort of wrestlers to vie for primacy in their own historical era, and it's fun as hell to watch it happen.
Every item in this survey is depressing. We have ushered in an era of lowered expectations, elevated the virtual over the actual, and insisted on celebrating mediocrity and formula over originality and insight. We are besieged by conmen, grifters, and thieves. The real tragedy is that we no longer rail against them but celebrate them and aspire to be like them. Our thought leaders are frauds. We seek inspiration from commercial products disguised as art. This isn't nihilism. This is an observation.
I know - what a shock ! But I don't listen to radio hardly ever anymore. Not since any good talk radio disappeared from AM quite awhile ago. And as for music on radio (outside of super good KNKX - a Public radio Jazz station) I got tired ,decades ago of listening to Spirit In The Sky (or it's equivalents) .
Like someone here said: "3 songs" or the variation of. Exactly HOW many times do I need to hear these anymore ? Sigh ...
Genuinely interested in your feedback/thoughts here. Last year I made an album of demos, only available as a physical copy inside a hardback lyric book. I shifted a few to friends etc and cleared about £200 - brushing this up against Dani Filth’s comments on Spotify of millions of streams for @£20 vs 30 copies sold for £200, mine seems to be the preferred business model and I am nowhere! Why do you think bands and their management keep their products in the streaming space? It would make sense to me to pull the whole lot - and if many followed suit, the platforms would surely have to rethink their model of royalty payments. Is visibility really that important in 2023?
I rarely comment on articles, etc, but I'd have to say your stuff is the best of the various newsletters that have popped in over the last couple of years. I will probably subscribe & put it in the budget with 20 other pubs in 5-6 months when I begin finishing a book I've been working on since 2020.
Keep it up!
H. Scott Bayer, Indie Film Reporter - Exec Ed./Publisher
"Using AI-generated data to train AI could introduce further errors into already error-prone models. Large language models regularly present false information as fact. If they generate incorrect output that is itself used to train other AI models, the errors can be absorbed by those models and amplified over time….Even worse, there’s no simple fix."
---------
GIGO. The internet is littered with false and incorrect info. These days, anyone can publish virtually anything they want w/o anyone overseeing whether it is correct. If someone does correct the posting, it is typically done in a subsequent post that still leaves the original incorrect post up and available to be scraped by search engines.
Some months back I had some back and forth with the General Editor of the our small, free local newspaper. They had published a letter to the editor that was factually incorrect. I asked why the paper did not add a comment that while they were publishing the letter to show the opinion of a reader, the information was incorrect? The person told me that it wasn't their job to correct letters to the editor. Which makes them part of the problem.
Given this reality, why is anyone surprised that ChatGPT, et al produces bad answers, since it obtained its "knowledge" by sucking in everything on the web without curation?
"perfect music for enhanced focus"
For me, the perfect music for concentration is the sound of silence. The older I get, the more I prefer silence. I was very happy when my health club eliminated the din of background music, recognizing that everyone was wearing headphones or earbuds and wasn't listening to THEIR choice of music anyway!
Taylor Swift is playing football stadiums, so the 10 million per concert doesn't really blow my mind. Not when you see what folks are paying to see Paul McCartney or Bruce Springsteen. Who are nostalgia acts who haven't been relevant in some time. Not dissing them, by relevant I mean dominating everything.
What does blow my mind? She's playing 5 dates in Los Angeles. Two dates in smaller cities like Minneapolis, KC, Cincinnati. I don't think anyone's ever done that. In my day (the Motor City) bands on huge tours like the Stones, the Who, Michael Jackson- one date per city. I can't speak for the metro areas like Los Angeles and NYC, but no way was it 5 dates. Juggernaut ain't the word.
Speaking of my day, my mom or dad would shlep us to classical concerts and musical, whether we wanted to go or not. But by the time I was old enough to say I wanted to go to a rock concert, it was my money. They weren't paying. Minimum wage jobs like bagging groceries and collecting shopping carts, being a lifeguard, busboy. We'd look at the concert schedule and carefully choose which bands we cared enough to pay for. Tix were a lot more affordable, even adjusted for inflation. Or as I read earlier today, Americans just haven't figured out that we're paying more for less, for just about everything under the sun.
Don't tell me the kids aren't spoiled these days. Hardly any of them work anymore, partially because "full-employment" now means adults working minimum wage dead-end jobs that teenagers used to fill.
Awesome article!! I don’t know how you manage to amass all this information, and stay on top of all these mind blowing trends, as you do. You really have to shake your head at all the absurdity modern advances are creating in this world. What was refreshing to see when I watched the videos on utube, was a gathering of 400 musicians performing, in unison, in remembrance of Chester of Linkin Park. Nice to see some things are still grassroots. Just sayin’.
Jaw dropping. We will see the cause and effect soon enough in the music world and after that there will need to be a new reality and business model. Such nonsense I was never prepared to see in my adult life!
So, I have over time determined that live performances from “old” musicians is not worth the ticket price. Especially if I already saw the act. Peter Gabriel is touring. I will not go. Overpriced and likely not going to live up to my previous attendance at a concert if his. I have seen jethro Tull in the 80’s. Peter Gabriel too. I stopped going to Rush concerts when they were still touring and alive as it just was not an enjoyable experience. Is that due to me not liking the musician’s new stuff of am I feeling they can’t pull off their old stuff? Both really maybe. I could write detailed concert reviews, but ultimately being disappointed in older act’s new lack of fidelity is why I give up. No old bands. None.
Apple can just prod off.
Hard to believe Woody Allen has anything on Hal Ashby (except notoriety, and a notorious reputation). Are any of the star couples in any Allen vehicle farther apart in age than Harold & Maude?
Thumbs up on the executive briefings
Nice to see sumo wrestlers get a mention (however tangentially) on this platform. Sumo is actually in a very exciting period of transition right now; as a generation of wrestlers that held sway at the top of the sport for over a decade have almost all retired; including the greatest grand champion (Yokozuna) of all recorded history, Hakuho. This makes room for the next cohort of wrestlers to vie for primacy in their own historical era, and it's fun as hell to watch it happen.
Every item in this survey is depressing. We have ushered in an era of lowered expectations, elevated the virtual over the actual, and insisted on celebrating mediocrity and formula over originality and insight. We are besieged by conmen, grifters, and thieves. The real tragedy is that we no longer rail against them but celebrate them and aspire to be like them. Our thought leaders are frauds. We seek inspiration from commercial products disguised as art. This isn't nihilism. This is an observation.
I know - what a shock ! But I don't listen to radio hardly ever anymore. Not since any good talk radio disappeared from AM quite awhile ago. And as for music on radio (outside of super good KNKX - a Public radio Jazz station) I got tired ,decades ago of listening to Spirit In The Sky (or it's equivalents) .
Like someone here said: "3 songs" or the variation of. Exactly HOW many times do I need to hear these anymore ? Sigh ...
Genuinely interested in your feedback/thoughts here. Last year I made an album of demos, only available as a physical copy inside a hardback lyric book. I shifted a few to friends etc and cleared about £200 - brushing this up against Dani Filth’s comments on Spotify of millions of streams for @£20 vs 30 copies sold for £200, mine seems to be the preferred business model and I am nowhere! Why do you think bands and their management keep their products in the streaming space? It would make sense to me to pull the whole lot - and if many followed suit, the platforms would surely have to rethink their model of royalty payments. Is visibility really that important in 2023?
Some data to put some of this in context:
https://nasaa-arts.org/nasaa_research/creative-economy-state-profiles/
I rarely comment on articles, etc, but I'd have to say your stuff is the best of the various newsletters that have popped in over the last couple of years. I will probably subscribe & put it in the budget with 20 other pubs in 5-6 months when I begin finishing a book I've been working on since 2020.
Keep it up!
H. Scott Bayer, Indie Film Reporter - Exec Ed./Publisher
discursive essay on apples <— Newton’s Apple must fit in here somewhere..