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by ben_w 537 days ago
> It's a bag of data and some math algorithms that generate text....

That describes almost every web server.

To the extent that this particular maths produces text that causes political, financial, or legal harms to their interests, this kind of testing is just like any other accepting testing.

To the extent that the maths is "like a human", even in the vaguest and most general sense of "like", then it is also good to make sure that the human it's like isn't a sadistic psychopath — we don't know how far we are from "like" by any standard, because we don't know what we're doing, so this is playing it safe even if we're as far from this issue as cargo-cults were from functioning radios.