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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 07:34:55 JST Eaton

   @hipsterelectron Yeah, like, I’d say that “making stuff up” is a category error, it’s not a question of invention or imagination but of… slavish inherent devotion to training data and syntactical/semantic patterns without regard for pragmatics or more complex or nuanced meaning that’s more than skin deep. Thus “shortening” rather than”summarizing” — it won’t simpky invent unrelated text, but there is ho assurance what it produces is in fact “the theme” or the important elements at all

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 07:36:57 JST Eaton

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     @hipsterelectron Which… well, I suppose that IS exactly the load of caveats you mention, lol.

     I think the reason I find it intriguing is that those questions of language/meaning/communication are all really important to me and have been long before LLMs, but unfortunately there’s little cultural appetite or capacity for them, which means the really critical nuance is collapsed to “But I asked it! And it answered right!” anecdotes