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librarychic@glammr.us ("Courtney F.") wrote:
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117365866264427172
No punches pulled here: "In fact, today’s LLMs and the chatbots they power are not poorly understood, nor are they powerful in the sense of being effective tools for this use case. They are systems for generating plausible-looking text, built out of enormous, haphazardly collected datasets and then “fine-tuned” (that is, further trained) to be especially appealing to their intended users."