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To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: Avinash Vallarapu <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Planet Postgres and the curse of AI
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:02:32 -0500
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> Posts should be technically and factually correct
agreed and period. no need qualify how the nonsense was created.
-john
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 4:13 PM Robert Treat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 12:45 PM Avinash Vallarapu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> However, I do agree with Lawrence that it is impossible to prove whether it is written by AI or a human.
> >> AI can make mistakes and it might mistakenly point out that a blog is written by AI (which I know is difficult to implement).
> >
> >
> > Right - I am not interested in "proving" things, but I think a policy to discourage overuse of AI is warranted.
> >
> >> People may also use AI generated Images in their blogs, and they may be meaningful for their article.
> >> Is it only the content or also the images ? It might get too complicated while implementing some rules.
> >
> >
> > Only the content, the images are perfectly fine. Even expected, these days.
> >
> >>
> >> Ultimately, Humans do make mistakes and we shouldn't discourage people assuming it is AI that made that mistake.
> >
> >
> > Humans make mistakes. AI confidently hallucinates.
> >
>
> I think this is a key point, and one that we could focus on for
> purposes of discouragement. Ie. "Blogs that are found to repeatedly
> post incorrect information and/or AI style hallucinations may be
> restricted from contributing to the planet postgres feed. This will be
> determined on a case by case basis." While it is likely impossible to
> come up with a set of rules that will satisfy some of the more
> legalistic folks among us, this would be a simple warning that would
> at least encourage folks to make sure they aren't posting bad
> information and leave a door open for enforcement if needed. And yes,
> this assumes that the folks running planet will enforce if needed,
> though I don't think it requires heavy policing at this point.
>
> Robert Treat
> https://xzilla.net
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>
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