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  • archonet@lemy.loltoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3126: Disclaimer
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    2 days ago

    I got accused of being an LLM for the first time just a few days ago. Was pretty funny.

    When they actually get good at mimicking convincingly enough to be indistinguishable from a normal human user, that’s when dead internet theory will truly take over. This could’ve already happened, but I’ve seen enough stupid shit vomited by LLMs to know it probably hasn’t happened yet. Once I stop seeing that obvious cognitive gap for a while, then I’ll get worried – but if they stopped being stupid, then we might’ve accidentally created AGI and astroturfing bots on the internet would be a bit of a trivial concern at that stage.


  • Hello, my name is Dr. Glenn Pierce, and by now you may have realized that all of this has happened exactly the way it was supposed to. You see, everyone who comes to the institute does so because they feel they are no longer in control of something important to them. But, more often than not, the problem is not that the problems we face can’t be solved; the problem is that we become so afraid of failure that we refuse to see our problems from a new perspective – and so we do the same things again, and again, and again. And therein of course, we find exactly the failure we were looking for.

    Your life will always be a struggle, and you will always have problems. But today, you had the chance to see things differently. Even though it meant facing obstacles that seemed impossible at first, you thought outside the box - and you overcame them. Because you saw things from every angle, you understood them for what they really were. Because you kept moving forward, no matter how far off the path you were told you were headed, or how unexpected it became…you found your way.

    In a few minutes, you’ll be back in the real world, and some part of you will say that none of this was real: So how could it have meant anything? But – just like the power of perspective itself – it will have been as real as you believed it to be. All you’ve got to do is… wake… up.