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Re:Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style by lanternfish on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:40AM (#35243457)
Quality in this case doesn't necessarily mean ground truth accuracy - it just means ability to look accurate to humans.
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Re:Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:04AM (#35243975)
I agree, that's the problem, but I think it's still somewhat complicated.

Imagine someone posting an extremely well written and insightful postmortem of an outage. It would show advanced and accurate usage of all kinds of tools to get to the bottom of the outage. It would be extremely useful reading for anyone investigating a similar outage, but the outage never actually occurred.

Now you have both ground truth accuracy and misleading fiction at the same time. Whether or not that makes the post useful depends entirely on the conclusions you're drawing from it.

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