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LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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15 points

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)

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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.

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

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And proofreading is notably more complex and has a worse failure state than just writing your own summary.

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Thing is you can do in real time and not pay as much attention to the goings on as you write or do it in the end and forget stuff. there is no harm in the ai summariziation. you could instead write a summary and check if you left anything out via the ai.

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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.

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