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by dijksterhuis 526 days ago
i do listen to music.

i listen to it on apple music.

i pay money to apple for this.

some of that money that i pay to apple goes to the rights holders of that music for the copying and performance of their work through my speakers.

that’s a pretty big difference to how most LLMs are trained right there! i actually pay original creators some money.

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i am a human being. you cannot reduce me down to some easy information theory.

an LLM is a tool. an algorithm. with the same random seed etc etc it will get the same results. it is not human.

you put me in the same room as yesterday i’ll behave completely differently.

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i have listened to way more than terabytes of music in my life. doesn’t mean i have the ability to regurgitate any of it verbatim though. i’m crap at that stuff.

LLMs seem to be really good at it though.