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citrin_rutoday at 1:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Data hoarding predates LLMs. There where other machine learning methods which also needed data for training.


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Forgeties79today at 2:09 PM

“Before LLM’s there was_____”

I see this whenever an LLM’s impact is assessed. We know. The issue is scale and the ability for smaller and smaller groups (down to individuals) to execute at scale.

Fake news always existed. Now one dude in India can flood multiple sock puppet media accounts with right wing content/images (actual example) at a scale previously unimaginable.

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