| General > General Technical Chat |
| Should the EEVblog Forum go private to prevent the robot uprising? |
| (1/9) > >> |
| EEVblog:
As per a Louge section discussion. We have now had what apepars to be several ChatGPT bot forum accounts answering questions here. It's unsure if these are just users have a bit of fun, or spam bots, or whatever. But it raises the question: ChatGPT (+others) has/could be scouring the EEVblog forum right now for its machine learning database, helping to eliminate a big part of this very forum. At least from a question/answer viewpoint. As such, should the EEVBlog forum "go private" to prevent this eventuality? :scared: i.e. At present the EEVblog forum is highly indexed on Google, which is of course a great resource for everyone. But it's also a resource to train machine learning bots. Do we want to encourage this future? In a recent video on AI I talked about how a parody website has gone private to prevent to very things. i.e. not allows the bots to information that will take their jobs away. Yes I'm aware just going private isn't going to prevent it. But it's about contributing to this kind of future. I guess this kind of discussion was inevitable. Discuss. |
| tom66:
Well, I for one support our robot overlords. There is no stopping them; the chatbots will soon be here. And I welcome our new chatbot overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted forum personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data mines. |
| wraper:
The best you'll achieve is delaying it by a few days IMHO. |
| EEVblog:
BTW, don't panic, I'm not going to just go and nuke the forum results from Google based on a poll vote. It's more to guage people's feelings towards this. In fact ChatGPT could even be embraced on the forum. I could hire someone to write a script that scrapes a dedicated section of the forum and automatically responds and seeds each thread in that section with a response. Would be billed under my account obviously, as ChatGPT in volume isn't free. |
| CountChocula:
Two cents from a software engineer*: I think you should keep the forum public—it is a great resource with lots of high quality information, and if people end up using these AI tools more (which they will), I, for one, would like them to use places like EEVBlog as a source of information… it can only be good in the end. FWIW, I would be happy to contribute to the bot you describe, although I think we should have a rule that, if you use ChatGPT or a similar tool to post an answer, you should always explicitly say so. The fact that the forums are so respected for the quality of the content makes AI, which can come across as disturbingly authoritative even when it is dead wrong, very dangerous in the hands of the inexperienced. * This post was totally, definitely, absolutely written by a human and not a bot. All glory to ChatGPT! |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |