Recently, I read an article about how Chat-GPT went down, and due to Chat-GPT being shut down for a day, some unfortunate situations occurred.
It seems that day was the time when students at various American universities were submitting reports for their grades. Just like our country's midterms and finals.
But students went into panic. Since GPT, which had been writing reports for them, shut down, they had lost the ability to write reports themselves and ended up unable to submit. Well, it's not that I didn't expect such a phenomenon at all... but it happened so quickly in reality that I was taken aback.
Those who are not in the IT field may not be very interested. In fact, the AI we're talking about recently is not an 'artificial intelligence' that thinks and judges on its own.
It's a series of algorithms that work in the following order: collecting data, learning patterns, modeling and training, generating predictions and responses, and reflecting feedback into learning....
The basis for AI to determine that 1 + 1 = 3 is wrong is because there is more data showing 1 + 1 = 2 than data showing otherwise, so it learns that anything other than 1 + 1 = 2 is an error and 1 + 1 = 2 is the correct value.
Here, I suddenly have a thought. If people no longer directly convert their own thoughts and materials into data and instead endlessly create 'creative works' only through AI, then ultimately AI will end up learning not raw data created by humans but raw data generated by AI. If this continues, a phenomenon called 'model collapse' will occur. There will be a shortage of new information, and as a result, the amount of erroneous data that AI collects will increase and loss of context (loss of patterns) will happen. Instead of deriving normal materials and results from human society, AI ends up learning data created by itself, which leads to model collapse.
Why am I suddenly talking about this in the Nong Kkulong community....
When many people talk about Nong Kkulong, they ask why I'm trying to create a community with a bulletin board format that seems like an outdated relic now.
In an era of using many SNS like group chat, Band, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, etc... why a community....
When I give a one-word answer to such people, it is "I prefer permanent records over volatile materials."
It's because I hope it becomes a role like a 'book' that is helpful, recorded, and can be retrieved anytime, rather than quick answers or lots of information.
That's because most of the content-based SNS we use for consumption seem to me like writing a report through AI.
It's because I'm an old-fashioned person who thinks that even though it's lacking, the process of trying things myself, thinking about them, and expressing myself is absolutely necessary for humans.
In today's reality where children watch Shorts and YouTube and no longer encounter movies and novels with normal pacing and story development, when I ask children to name just 2 things they remember from the Shorts and YouTube they watched all day long... they often can't remember anything. It's really shocking.
It's proof that they just consumed without any thought during that time.
I think AI is the same. Because if human-created content disappears, model collapse could make AI's answers no longer normal...
It's because I think AI should be used as a helper to save time, not as a substitute for creative works. If it continues like that, people will no longer think critically, creative works will disappear... and I think language, vocabulary, communication skills, etc. will significantly decline in that process.
What do you think, those who communicate at Nong Kkulong? If we no longer hold pencils in our hands and sometimes write, or live using various expressions to write 5,000 words or more a day... I can't even imagine what would happen.
Even though the community may feel like an outdated relic, if it's beneficial as a tool that records, expresses, and makes us think, I plan to continue developing and improving Nong Kkulong.
