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Are we though?

People I know watch less and less each year. I don't think it's because they're getting older, as the reasons they cite usually revolves around how the source material has been butchered.

And if subscriber numbers were still going up, I sincerely doubt that the producers kept increasing the subscription cost over the last few years.

Honestly, I think that soft power has been massively damaged too, with people looking for less virtue signalling and less asinine gender swaps along with contrived homosexuality in their media


U.S. population pyramid graph is sobering enough.

An em dash looks like this

You're not using that, neither in the past from what I can tell, nor in this comment.

You're just using a hyphen/minus instead of a colon, that's not an llm-ism


Actually, in an ancient and venerable markup language that's still in wide use in certain not-unimportant communities:

- = hyphen

-- = n-dash

--- = m-dash


You may notice that he didn't use the double or triple hyphen annotations either - which is usually only used in contexts such as latex, where a post-processor goes over the output for display.

I like to use a lazy variant -- it's not a double dash, or a weirdly written plus, it's a an em-dash that says "I don't even have this key on my keyboard, are you actually using alt-codes or what am I missing?". Not with a shout or a whisper, but with the quiet courage of just being -- but not an incomplete representation of a whole, but rather the fullness of that very distillation of honest, simple pragmatism. Not less, just different.

The above isn't slop. It's shit though!


In fact, I'd say it's a dead giveaway for "human impersonating AI impersonating humans". Using the hyphen as an em dash screams

> There is no moral argument anymore.

There never was.

There were just a few people profiting from ads trying to gaslight you into believing there was.


> new JS framework of the month

I got news for you: that hasn't been the case in 10 yrs now. It's no longer 2010 in case you didn't notice.

Seriously, react, emberjs angular, vuejs etc - they're all essentially the same age at this point.


Isn't tanstack the new hotness now? Or is it Vite? Or is it htmx?

Most Jobs I've worked at would've forbidden the use of personal subscriptions like that, as you'd be effectively uploading their intellectual property to foreign actors.

This can end with more then a termination - as in being literally liable/on the hook for serious contract violations.

So ymmv, you may want to take care with such an approach


I didn't mean to do it sneakily, I meant to be straight up with the employer and offer to pay for the subscription if they won't.

Huh, we have a process which has several exit criteria - which are pretty expensive to calculate with multiple rest calls to get through each...

I've always called them exit hatches, entirely unrelated to llms...

Now I wonder if I need to reword the docs... But realistically speaking, llms are the only readers of them nowadays, so I guess it doesn't matter.


People usually make the determination by reading at least part of the text and then find multiple smoking guns / llm-isms

The comment you responded to did not have those.

Fwiw, the article we're commenting on was likely not LLM written. The sentence structure is too convoluted, no LLM would've generated it like that - unless very carefully prompted ... But at that point it's no longer pure AI slop (imo).


Isn't that precisely the reason why we introduced the term hallucination? Because llms have historically always made up bullshit of they cannot answer directly... If they now nailed this to maybe the model not respond instead of responding incorrectly, then a lot of previously unusable usecases would become feasible.

So I feel like that's exactly the right metric and the way to track it wrt hallucinations.


I had a buddy in high school that was notorious for doing the same thing. (He's now a senior director at a Big 4 consultancy. :) )

Do you mind expanding a little more?

They had a buddy who used to lie a lot when they were younger… now they get paid for it

The point is that it's not a useful metric on its own. For example, redirecting from /dev/null also achieves a zero hallucination rate.

We want the hallucination rate to decrease while the overall answer rate of queries remains sufficiently high. For more specifics, look into ROC and AUC.


Uh, aren't you confirming his opinion with that? After all, Anna doesn't have the money to fight this in court

No. Anthropic fought and paid $1.5 billion in settlement and agreed to delete all the copyrighted material.

I'm confused here, how is this not even more of a confirmation?

Essentially: have funny amounts of money and the law ceases to matter. Or don't, and be squashed by the right holders


$1.5 billion is more than $19.5 million though.

Also if I were to guess the damages because of sci hub is higher than Anthropic training the models. I don't think I know anyone who didn't bought a book because the summary is available or they can ask about it to AI.

Delete? Wasn’t that material already used to train models?

All AI companies should be forced to re-train their models without the offending materials, and this should also extend to all LLMs distilled from models exposed to copyrighted works. Also cover code under licences such as GPL as well. Not to mention patents and designs. This whole LLM business is a giant IP laundromat.

One of the best things about it IMO -- or we'd be spending the next hundred years waiting for copyright reform

"Deleting" data they already ingested is meaningless.

well i guess its copyright not distill-statistical-model-from-it-rights.

It's almost certainly ai written though. All the regular tells are there... Though he likely edited some out, like that "just"

Also if it was handwritten, it'd have been a third in length, the rest was LLM fluff


Correct, that was my point


I see, i actually like these tells. It let's us easily distinguish garbage from someones thoughts.

And you can also see how brainrotten someone's gotten when they start accidentally sneaking in these tells into their normal communication.

As a matter of fact, after a full workday in which I'm essentially forced to read LLM garbage for 9h a day... I sadly notice myself adding the same fluff pointlessness to how I express myself. like I caught a viral contagion that's actively siphoning my humanity away.

And expectedly, when coming back to those opinions with a less infected mindset, I frequently have to reevaluate these thoughts later on


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