MartianSands

@MartianSands@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re still putting words in my mouth.

  I never said they weren’t stealing the data

  I didn’t comment on that at all, because it’s not relevant to the point I was actually making, which is that people treating the output of an LLM as if it were derived from any factual source at all is really problematic, because it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re putting words in my mouth, and inventing arguments I never made.

  I didn’t say anything about whether the training data is stolen or not. I also didn’t say a single word about intelligence, or originality.

  I haven’t been tricked into using one piece of language over another, I’m a software engineer and know enough about how these systems actually work to reach my own conclusions.

  There is not a database tucked away in the LLM anywhere which you could search through and find the phrases which it was trained on, it simply doesn’t exist.

  That isn’t to say it’s completely impossible for an LLM to spit out something which formed part of the training data, but it’s pretty rare. 99% of what it generates doesn’t come from anywhere in particular, and you wouldn’t find it in any of the sources which were fed to the model in training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That simply isn’t true. There’s nothing in common between an LLM and a search engine, except insofar as the people developing the LLM had access to search engines, and may have used them during their data gathering efforts for training data

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except these AI systems aren’t search engines, and people treating them like they are is really dangerous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably can do that, but a lot of the connections Ukraine are using will have been donated by third parties, rather than directly purchased by the Ukrainians. How do they tell the difference between those, and someone claiming to be doing that then shipping the dishes to Russia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is guaranteed, actually. US law imposes requirements on telecoms providers to support wire taps