Ok what about tech journalists who produced articles with those misunderstandings. Surely they know better yet still produce articles like this. But also people who care enough about this topic to post these articles usually I assume know better yet still spread this crap
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Yeah, they’re statistical word generators. There’s no intelligence. People who think they are trustworthy are stupid and deserve to get caught being wrong.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Zron@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Tech journalists don’t know a damn thing. They’re people that liked computers and could also bullshit an essay in college. That doesn’t make them an expert on anything.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
… And nowadays they let the LLM help with the bullshittery
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Are you guys sure. The media seems to be where a lot of LLM hate originates.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I liked when the Chicago Sun-Times put out a summer reading list and only a third of the books on it were real. Each book had a summary of the plot next to it too. They later apologized for it.
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Whoa that’s like how many colors there are
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
AI cant even understand it’s own brain to write about it
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Check out Ed Zitron’s angry reporting on Tech journalists fawning over this garbage and reporting on it uncritically. He has a newsletter and a podcast.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Emotion > Facts. Most people have been trained to blindly accept things and cheer on what fits with their agenda. Like technbro’s exaggerating LLMs, or people like you misrepresenting LLMs as mere statistical word generators without intelligence. That’s like saying a computer is just wires and switches, or missing the forest for the trees. Both is equally false.
Yet if it fits with the emotional needs or with dogma, then other will agree. It’s a convenient and comforting “A vs B” worldview we’ve been trained to accept. And so the satisfying notion and misinformation keeps spreading.
LLMs tell us more about human intelligence and the human slop we’ve been generating. It tells us that most people are not that much more than statistical word generators.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
You’ve bought-in to the hype. I won’t try to argue with you because you aren’t cognizent of reality.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
You’re projecting. Every accusation is a confession.
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Truth is bitter, and I hate it.