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American companies are spending enormous sums to develop high-performing AI models. Distillation attacks are attempting to maliciously extract them — and nobody is doing much to stop it.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They seem great till you ask them about something you know. Somehow people fail to extrapolate out that the failures they see in their field of expertise are actually there across all subject matters.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I find the same with human-written articles. Like New Scientist, for example. When I was young I liked reading it, right up until I started reading articles on topics I knew well. They were all misleading shite. So I naturally assume that everything else I read associated with that magazine is also shite.