when asked the reason, ChatGPT had this to say- "Actually, the choice of “Elara” wasn’t a result of training on specific copyrighted stories or any prompt to avoid copyright claims. OpenAI models like me are designed to create original content without directly referencing copyrighted characters, and "Elara" is simply a popular-sounding name in many storytelling contexts. I just used it consistently for its versatility, but I’m totally open to switching things up!"
ChatGPT's opinion on the matter is completely worthless, unless it was also trained on an accurate description of its training process (it wasn't). Language models do not even have access to their own "thought process" - if you ask it "why" it said something, you will get a post-hoc rationalization 100 percent of the time because the next-word prediction only has access to the same text that you see. The rationalization might be incidentally correct, or it might not - either way it contributes no real information about the model's internal state.
There's an interesting theory that this is all that consciousness is: one part of the brain trying to explain the decisions of another part, a part into which it has no special insight.
That interesting theory is called the bicameral mind, and as far as I know it's widely considered pseudoscience and not taken seriously in any scientific field.
Also, it doesn't describe at all the way LLMs work, so it isn't even applicable.
Ah such condescension! I was careful not to provide an opinion, but replicate the answer as is. The intent was not to treat that answer as fact; but I thought that response was pretty revealing and in fact supported the parent comment on LLMs having been trained on copyrighted materials. The response chatgpt provided was that OpenAI models are designed to create original content "without directly referencing copyrighted characters". If it was creating original content it needn't have referred to the constraint with respect to avoiding directly referencing the copyrighted characters.
Coincidentally, the audible book I was just listening to, mentioned how the VC firms in the mid-70s passed on investment opportunities with the mindset that start-ups cannot take on IBM.
Hi- happy to share the first edition of my weekly newsletter which will provide ~100 ai generated summaries of (mostly) tech-focused content (articles, videos, podcasts, HN/twitter threads) from the previous week. Would be great if you could subscribe and/or provide feedback. Thanks!
Anvil has been great. I'm a happy subscriber. As someone requested above for Pynecone, could Anvil also make a tutorial for creating ChatGPT clone (UI wrapper for ChatGPT/gpt-4) using Anvil?
