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 (DIR) Post #AT6dWkli4zOq0F4iZ6 by TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
       2023-02-27T13:24:51Z
       
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       Scott Aaronson’s latest blog is very good at explaining why anti-#LLM rhetoric isn’t making much impact beyond social media. https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7042
       
 (DIR) Post #AT6er7EeMGRdQbsvZ2 by cperry@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-02-27T13:39:44Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood besides, they always want to cast me from the Tarpeian rock.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT6gczyElsTukdbWMa by emmatonkin@mstdn.social
       2023-02-27T13:59:33Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood To me the "snobs vs plebs" stuff is a bit unhelpful (also evokes Tory rhetoric, but hey). Good, effective communication and expectation management around products is important regardless of the specific capabilities of the product or the specific intended audience. Misleading marketing is generally bad regardless of whether it applies to bath crystals or smoothies or chatbots. Also, on which note, the alien metaphor? Argh, no.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT8twx3329TXCQcQOO by cr@sigmoid.social
       2023-02-28T15:38:17Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood The thing is, the plebes will decide what GPT-N means to them without anyone else (consciously) controlling the narrative. This could be disastrous, as people can push themselves into self-fulfilling narratives around GPT-N, make cults around, etc...See e.g. the people at /r/chatgpt . Remember that language is a battlefield, and every inch we give (say, by the uncritical anthropomorphism of LLMs in communities like that subreddit above) leads to weirder stuff happening.