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lamenameyesterday at 8:14 PM4 repliesview on HN

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Forgeties79yesterday at 8:26 PM

If I want a boring, rote LLM answer I will prompt it myself. I don’t read blogs to have a middleman between me and a prompt.

rogerrogerryesterday at 8:25 PM

LLMs are running a gish gallop at Internet scale. It is not necessary or possible to disprove every sequence of tokens that emerges from one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

recursiveyesterday at 8:24 PM

Forming a human opinion about slop is like asymmetrical warfare. Or maybe a closer analogy is a Gish Gallop. It can be generated with way less effort than it takes to comprehend it, much less form a coherent opinion on it.

jraphyesterday at 8:29 PM

It matters whether something is written using an LLM even if we put aside the ethical aspects. Firstly, if your text is deadly boring to read, your point might not get across optimally and one might not just be interesting reading slop. Secondly, you might just been reading the LLM's opinion, and I'm just not interested neither. Thirdly, even if you are just using the LLM as an assistant, we know that your opinion itself may be influenced by the suggestions and since you are still under the impression you are writing yourself (which you are somewhat, not saying), you may internalize the suggestions as your own opinion. There are recent (probably imperfect) studies about this stuff.

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