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Paraphrasing Neil Gaiman, LLMs don’t give you information; they give you information shaped sentences.

They don’t encode semantics. They encode the statistical likelihood that each token will follow a given sequence of tokens.

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It’s worth pointing out that it does happen to reconstruct information remarkably well considering it’s just likelihood. They’re pretty useful tools like any other, it’s funny ofc to watch silicon valley stumble all over each other chasing the next smartphone.

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18 points

“remarkably well” as long as the remark is “this is still garbage!”

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The only remarkable thing is how fucking easy it is to convince the median consumer that vaguely-correct-shape sentences are correct.

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