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by nolok 1308 days ago
The problem is not journalist, it's about how Meta and LeCun presented it.

They presented it as "you should trust what it says and use to write papers", then hid in the small lines "oh actually really don't do that".

You can't have your cake and eat it AND complain about being called out on it.
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seydor 1308 days ago
> They presented it as "you should trust what it says

where ?

> The problem is not journalist,

What was the reason for the takedown

> You can't have your cake and eat it AND complain

I will agree to the extent in which Lecun's team , and other research teams need to leave corporates and go back to universities

> @Ylecun: When you have a tool at your disposal, you have to know what to use it for and how. E.g. a CNC machine will help you build a piece of furniture, but it won't design it for you. Galactica will help you write papers, but you still have to come up with the substance of the paper.

How is this unreasonable? Are random voters now reading scientific papers?

I sincerely hope they put it back online. It IS useful. I tried this in my very niche field and it did give me some directions and ideas for some review i am researching.

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cowsup 1308 days ago
> > The problem is not journalist,

>

> What was the reason for the takedown

The system was not doing what the team said it did. Journalists documented this and demonstrated it, which caused Meta to shut it down, but journalists didn’t break it.

Blaming journalists for this is like blaming the smoke detector for interrupting your movie before the fire could.

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seydor 1308 days ago
No, some people on twitter highlighted the imperfections of the model and branded it DANGEROUS, despite the fact that it had a whole page disclaimer that it is indeed hallucinating. It was brought to attention in some media which led to the researchers turning it off. We already know the "dangerous" trope from GPT3 and we know it's BS.

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1593156854372532231

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dmix 1308 days ago
> "you should trust what it says and use to write papers"

They really said something like that?

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