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by freehorse 534 days ago
This sounds like an extreme waste of resources in all sides.
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input_sh 534 days ago
LLMs in a nutshell.

Also see: people using them to write artificial garbage and then readers using them to summarise the said garbage.

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bryant 534 days ago
Extreme is right; I can only imagine the waste of power. It's probably exponentially worse than the waste of gas by postal services for delivering junk mail.

Except I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it in the US because of first amendment rights.

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freehorse 534 days ago
People (or "people" aka bots) do not write bs because they can. They write because they are incetivised to do so.
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