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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 26 points 1 year ago

Any idea what such things cost the company in terms of computation or electricity?

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 63 points 1 year ago

That's not the reason, it's because it was seemingly outputting training data (or at least data that looks like it could be training data)

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, but this cannot be free.

Edit: oh, are you suggesting it is the normal cost? Nuts, chathpt is not repeating forever.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I think that they were referring to the exploit that was recently published. Google researchers were able to reliably get the LLM to output training data verbatim, including PII.

To me, this reads as damage control for that. Especially as they are being sued for copyright infringement, which they and their proponents have been claiming is impossible (clearly, they were either wrong or lying).

[-] regbin_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's definitely cost. There are other ways to make it generate text that is similar to training data without needing it to endlessly repeat words so I doubt OpenAI cares in that aspect.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't endlessly repeat, there's a cap on token generation per request. It absolutely is because of the recent "exploit"

[-] regbin_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think they would care if it didn't get popular and having thousands of people trying it out, eating up huge amount of compute resources.

It's a known quirk of LLMs.

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