July 18, 2023
July 18, 2023
Check the whole post for more about the attacker's infrastructure and capabilities.https://t.co/KOJz584oMx
— Matt Johansen (@mattjay) July 17, 2023
Interesting second order effect. Because chatGPT is good at answering programming questions, stick overflow has seen a decrease in posts. The long term effect will be less publicly available data for future LLM etc to train on
Using models like ChatGPT may be more efficient for solving certain programming problems, but its widespread adoption and the resulting shift away from public exchange on the web will limit the open data people and models can learn from in the future.
[2307.07367] Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? Evidence from Activity on Stack Overflow
Large language models like ChatGPT efficiently provide users with information about various topics, presenting a potential substitute for searching the web and asking people for help online. But since users interact privately with the model, these models may drastically reduce the amount of publicly available human-generated data and knowledge resources. This substitution can present a significant problem in securing training data for future models. In this work, we investigate how the release of ChatGPT changed human-generated open data on the web by analyzing the activity on Stack Overflow, the leading online Q\&A platform for computer programming. We find that relative to its Russian and Chinese counterparts, where access to ChatGPT is limited, and to similar forums for mathematics, where ChatGPT is less capable, activity on Stack Overflow significantly decreased. A difference-in-differences model estimates a 16\% decrease in weekly posts on Stack Overflow. This effect increases in magnitude over time, and is larger for posts related to the most widely used programming languages. Posts made after ChatGPT get similar voting scores than before, suggesting that ChatGPT is not merely displacing duplicate or low-quality content. These results suggest that more users are adopting large language models to answer questions and they are better substitutes for Stack Overflow for languages for which they have more training data. Using models like ChatGPT may be more efficient for solving certain programming problems, but its widespread adoption and the resulting shift away from public exchange on the web will limit the open data people and models can learn from in the future.
The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media asked a judge to reconsider his detention, pointing out that he is charged with the same federal counts as former President Donald Trump https://t.co/OdDQApYwSj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2023
yikes, unfollowing him now. was a big fan of seeing such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it. was not aware he was french
— Peli Grietzer (@peligrietzer) July 16, 2023
found the most chaotic author on amazon pic.twitter.com/PY8EtjPXQg
— Lucy (@LMAsaysno) July 17, 2023
Trying to imagine a country where people without health care get as much ink spilled for them as people who own office towers. They've been crying about this for 3 years! https://t.co/jDGBbDu9Br
— Arriving 30 minutes early (@InternetHippo) July 18, 2023
Uranium-235 https://t.co/nqXfd1V2zD
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 18, 2023
Some people say it's bland. I say it's versatile.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 18, 2023
Police Raid Home of Suspected Arms Dealer pic.twitter.com/E7OBpT52ZJ
— Uncle Duke (@UncleDuke1969) August 19, 2018
did you guys know that a conspiracy theorist attempted to live out the initial covid-19 quarantine on disney's abandoned discovery island?! his name is richard mcguire, and i'm going to tell you all about his wacky adventure. there he is. there's the man, the absolute mad lad pic.twitter.com/RXDeCrgRdE
— ash ✿♥‿♥✿ (@epthot_) July 16, 2023
richard believes that walt disney was a nazi leader working for the illuminati and that he had been using discovery island as a "real life jurassic park," breeding genetically modified creatures and misc creepy stuff there. he described DI as being "shrouded in mystery and death" pic.twitter.com/Cd3OBhPZYq
— ash ✿♥‿♥✿ (@epthot_) July 16, 2023
Hong Kongers urged to stare at smokers in a disapproving way to help create a tobacco-free city https://t.co/k2H6hH4vto
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 15, 2023