Hosted by Ben, Max, Maxwell Tani, Ben Smith, Liz Hoffman
Published by Semafor Podcasts
Every Friday media reporter Max Tani and Semafor Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith pull back the curtain on the most important stories about media, revealing why you see and hear what you see and hear. Mixed Signals from Semafor Media is supported by Think with Google.
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[…] And it kind of makes my eyes glaze over. Yeah, that's such a subtle, interesting thing. That's so interesting. Why does it do that? You've paid a lot of attention to... the hallmarks of AI writing. Why does it use some of those tropes or cliches? When you train a language model, you start by doing next token prediction. So you're going to say, given the last N words, what is the next word? And so I think these models, these were like GPT-2 and GPT-3. I think these models actually didn't have these tells. They had maybe a little bit of mode collapse, but they could mimic human writing pretty well. […]
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Every Friday media reporter Max Tani and Semafor Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith pull back the curtain on the most important stories about media, revealing why you see and hear what you see and hear.
Mixed Signals from Semafor Media is supported by Think with Google.
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