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This weekend, I was thinking about the impact of generative models: if creative work becomes easier due to AI leverage, where does the value accrue? My answer: taste! In a world full of content, curators and creators with strong taste have outsize impact. https://loeber.substack.com/p/7-ai-creates-returns-to-taste
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Thank you! And great rec — full builds are hugely impressive when founders pull them off.
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Today, I was thinking about the search for product-market-fit, and how much you should focus on polish in those early days. My view: not very much. Importantly, that's not just about faster iteration cycles. There are subtler reasons to avoid polish: https://loeber.substack.com/p/6-avoiding-polish-to-find-product
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Deer Valley is one of the world’s few resorts that is ski-only and has banned snowboarders 😉
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The big question: as we go into a future of needing *present* training data, how can we guarantee the authenticity of it as human-generated? Avoiding feedback loops of AI training on AI-generated data seems important. Recursive reinforcement is dangerous in other areas. 5/5
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…since when we’re generating content, we care about the current state. We want to summarize text from today and answer today’s questions. Training on text from 1850 doesn’t suffice; that’s a big gap to the modern day. An LLM trained on data from 2000 won’t know what Uber is. 4/5
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An attempt at a solution is to identify and secure as much genuine human-generated data as possible. That’s easy for past data. Stuff from the 1800s is the “low background steel” analogue of AI. But unlike steel, such old data has limited usefulness. Recent data is better… 3/5
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It’s ironic. The better LLMs become, the more LLM-generated content there is, and the less distinguishable it is from human-generated content. This proportionally diminishes human-gen training data (or pollutes it with AI-gen data) thereby slowing progress of new models! 2/5
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lowbackgroundsteel.ai Soon, the majority of online content will be AI-generated. But generated from what training data? Well, online content, of course. But if that’s going to be mostly AI-generated already then that’s not real “training data”, that’s just reinforcement… 1/5
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I wrote about the events of this weekend and its effects on the American startup ecosystem: SVB and to Build on the Shoulders of Giants https://loeber.substack.com/p/5-svb-and-to-build-on-the-shoulders?sd=pf
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I keep being served ads for lime based tshirts https://i.imgur.com/v1yiZ9g.jpg
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I spent all of today thinking about modern web design. There are so many talented people working on UI/UX design. So why are interfaces often inconsistent and frustrating to navigate? What is it that I miss about the Windows XP software era? Read my latest essay: Bring Back Idiomatic Design https://t.co/qWmvtaCeYp
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I keep just one large running doc, easier to search etc
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Google Doc (accessible and synced across all my devices) with a periodic GitHub backup
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My guess it’s that old Picasso saying — “When art critics get together, they talk about abstract matters–things like shape, line, significant form. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy the best turpentine.” Is this it? 👀
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Why does Moment of Zen say Turpentine in the top right? cc @dwr https://i.imgur.com/oHcub2L.jpg
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@limes I was served this ad, might be more down your alley https://i.imgur.com/HPU9g1B.jpg
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@skominers welcome!
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Wow! Did this happen recently?
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Is it possible to link straight to a Warpcaster account? Would love to be able to share a URL for my profile
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