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   Christian Schwägerl (christianschwaegerl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:30:13 JST Christian Schwägerl

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   • Rich Felker
   • Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
   • Moritz Negwer

   @moritz_negwer @dalias Per @emilymbender publication with Chirag Shah, the proper analogy for LLMs is an oil spill in a fragile ecosystem
   https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468#fn30

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     Moritz Negwer (moritz_negwer@mstdn.science)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:30:18 JST Moritz Negwer

     • Rich Felker

     @dalias Nice summary. This is far outside my expertise, so I only have to offer a crude analogy:

     The trope used to be that data is the new oil, so by that analogy LLMs would be the distilled gasoline?

     (Note how this analogy implies that the result powers a huge speedup in e.g. commerce and warfare. Plus brutal battles over control of the oil fields / data warehouses, often ending with autocrats in charge.)

     Rich Felker repeated this.