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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago

LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:

[–] hex 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Facts are not a data type for LLMs

I kind of like this because it highlights the way LLMs operate kind of blind and drunk, they're just really good at predicting the next word.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re not good at predicting the next word, they’re good at predicting the next common word while excluding most unique choices.

What results is essentially if you made a Venn diagram of human language and only ever used the center of it.

[–] hex 15 points 2 months ago

Yes, thanks for clarifying what I meant! AI will never create anything unique unless prompted uniquely and even then it will tend to revert back to what you expect most.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ATTN: If you're coming into this thread to say, "The output of AI is bad because your prompts suck," I'm just proud that you managed to figure out how to use the internet at all. Good job, you!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

remember remember, eternal september

(not that I much agree with the classist overtones of the original, but fuck me does it come to mind often)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, to be fair, AI can do it in seconds. Which beats humans.

But if that is relevant if the results are worthless is another question.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah it changes the task from note taking or summarizing to proofreading.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Made strange choices about what to highlight.

They certainly do. For a while it was common to see AI-generated summaries under links to articles on lemmy, so I got a feel for them. Seems to me you would not need any fancy artificial intelligence to do equally well: Just take random excerpts, or maybe just read every third sentence.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

how the hell did this of all the posts turn into a promptfondler shooting gallery

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

1.26K subscribers

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

i have seen the light from the helpful posters here, made up bullshit alleged summaries of documents are great actually

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Dang everyone here needs to look at a tree or a cat or something. Energy is wack in here

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just went outside and appreciated the rendering

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Pretty nice right? I did the trees and cats.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Could it be because a statistical relation isn't the same as a semantic one? No, I must be prompting it wrong. I'll just add "engineer" to my title and then everyone will take me seriously.

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