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[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Me too. Ever since I read Richard Stallman's words to avoid article. I kinda wish I hadn't read it now lmao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'll definitely read it start to end when I have the time later, for now this is my favourite part of the article (Of the parts I skimmed through):

“Bullshit generators” is a suitable term for large language models (“LLMs”) such as ChatGPT, that generate smooth-sounding verbiage that appears to assert things about the world, without understanding that verbiage semantically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Man, what a nice read