The creator of an open source project that scraped the internet to determine the ever-changing popularity of different words in human language usage says that they are sunsetting the project because generative AI spam has poisoned the internet to a level where the project no longer has any utility.
Wordfreq is a program that tracked the ever-changing ways people used more than 40 different languages by analyzing millions of sources across Wikipedia, movie and TV subtitles, news articles, books, websites, Twitter, and Reddit. The system could be used to analyze changing language habits as slang and popular culture changed and language evolved, and was a resource for academics who study such things. In a note on the project’s GitHub, creator Robyn Speer wrote that the project “will not be updated anymore.”
NGL sounds like a butthurt dude. Emotional arguments without logic.
I’d be fucking butthurt as well if my pet project was being destroyed by mega corpos for a shitty generative thief AI.
This does not say wonders about reading comprehension.
Imagine being an author whose sole income is writing books.
Here comes an AI that
stoleindexed your work and is asked by a customer of OpenAI to summarise your books. It does so perfectly and the issuer is able to use your results freely, since they think it’s AI generated and doesn’t require attribution.You receive nothing in return.
Good luck making a living.
Edit: stole to indexed, added edit note