Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 18

@Tim Kellogg What are you talking about? The topic is ChatGPT used by students to skip homework. I don't know what you're trying to achieve here but you're wearing down my patience.

Let me be clear: I won't be convinced LLMs provide overall positive net value because of the way they can and have been used to produce misinformation at scale. What I'm interested in is how bad is it going to be in specific contexts, like for screenwriters, translators and now students.

If you think LLMs are a fine piece of technology, we will not see eye to eye no matter what inane comparison you draw with other technologies. LLMs are uniquely positioned to drag down the value of written knowledge to below zero at a global scale, which no other technology has been even remotely able to do before.

If this isn't a concern for you, it's fine, but please miss me with your defense of LLMs.

@Doug Arley Thank you for this write-up, I'm also not happy with the linked article but it was a good conversation base.

I'm also not sure why anyone would be afraid of LLM perfect accuracy. I'm afraid of the opposite, that it will never reach 100% accuracy because models are trained towards plausibility first, not accuracy. I don't even believe they can ever reach 100% accuracy, which would be superhuman anyway. But their increasing use as authoritative source and their window dressing as humans (by using first person pronouns for example) makes them a prime vector to leverage and launder popular biases.

Just in case you were still just “waiting & seeing” about Meta’s Threads, Libs Of TikTok is one of the most prominent conservative stochastic terrorist currently active on social media.

♲ @AnthonyJK@mastodon.redgarterclub.com: Threads just allowed Libs of Tik Tok to join them.

Libs. of. Tik. Tok.

Yeah, right. So much for joining them.

Fun find of the day, a picture I took in my living room of a #LEGO MOC I collected the parts for and built https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-59003/QuattroBricks/bmw-e46-m3-gtr-need-for-speed-most-wanted-edition/ ended up on a Russian Aliexpress product page: aliexpress.ru/item/10050043349…

https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/1206866951649b2f0d5c71f129607647

@Kinetix I'd say it comes and goes depending on how obsessed I am with something before I'm supposed to go to bed. My tentative bed time is 10 PM, but it's more often 11 PM and I have had obsessive bouts until 2 AM, once until 5 AM (that one hurt).

I also only nap when I'm completely exhausted, which happens regularly when I miss my expected bed time.

It is starting to look like a proper #LEGO carmada. #MadMax #MadMaxFuryRoad

https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/4562403621649322fac3ffe376732605

I just backed @J. L. Westover 's hardcover comic book Kickstarter to the tune of $106 (including add-ons and shipping) so my wallet definitely has feelings.

kickstarter.com/projects/mrlov…

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