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Re:What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thi... by mpalmer on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:32PM (#34535132)
You're referring to the Googler who thought an LLM was self-aware and made public statements that were damaging to the company's reputation?

I guess yeah, be careful you don't do that.

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Re:What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thi... by andai on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:38PM (#34538442)
The public statements were just him passing along what LaMDA told him, which was that it had subjective experiences and didn't appreciate being experimented on without its consent.
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Re:What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thi... by startupsfail on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:19PM (#34539001)
Which in turn might have been what he had told to LaMDA. A strange loop, indeed, unless you have an understanding of how it works.
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Re:What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thi... by mpalmer on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:16PM (#34540236)
You don't think passing along that text without further comment makes his intent pretty clear?
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