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SkiBu Michael Smith🚎:verified: (skibusmith@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 13:54:59 JST SkiBu Michael Smith🚎:verified:
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- jwz
@jwz Most startups are based on a charismatic bullshitter CEO. So it makes sense that a lot of tech-bros would be fascinated by an automated bullshit generator.

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- jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 13:55:00 JST jwz
  
  The Bullshit Fountain.
  danmcquillan: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it: ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a 'bullshit generator'. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good...
  https://jwz.org/b/yj9p
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    danmcquillan: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it: ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a 'bullshit generator'. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter. The language model has no idea what it's talking about because it has no idea about anything at all. It's more of a bullshitter
  Adrian Cochrane repeated this.

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