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points by hedora 1 day ago | 0 comments

It’s just a fancy document completer. If you tell (or it is likely you want) it to complete a document where it is a reckless enabler, well, conversations like that are in the training set, so that’s what it’ll do.

Education is probably the first line of defense, in the same way you (hopefully) get safety training before using power tools.

[–] floro 1 day ago

Education is indeed very important. But AI companies don't want you educated about LLMs. They want you to believe they are magic, conscious and super"intelligent", instead of simply next token predictors. Especially investors being uneducated is the reason for their absurd valuations.

[–] yfw 1 day ago

If its not world changing then what's the rationale for letting the company steal everyone's IP?