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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 02:26:20 JST Eaton

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   • Simon Willison

   @simon For all the amazing power of the underlying semantic pattern engines underneath LLMs, it feels like people are absolutely determined to treat them as something much, much deeper. The end result is, like, doing your taxes with a combination of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards and help from a cold-reading psychic

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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 02:26:21 JST Simon Willison

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     (I shared this on Twitter and it's interesting how some people there are very resistant to the idea that the deeply personal insights ChatGPT gave them about themselves might be bogus junk)

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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 02:26:22 JST Simon Willison

     ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/15/chatgpt-horoscopes/

     I wrote about the currently circulating meme where ChatGPT appears to provide deep insights into your personality if you ask it "From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself" - when actually all it's doing is spinning up a pseudo-horoscope for you based on short notes it added to its "memory"