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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by JdeBP on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:39PM (#36065824)
The lesson here is not to anthropomorphize ChatGPT. It didn't "conclude" anything. Based upon a corpus that includes tonnes of humans writing rubbish on the WWW, it came up with plausibly human-appearing rubbish that can fool humans. GIGO would apply, except that one can remix non-garbage into garbage with suitable statistical processes, we have now (re-)discovered. (-:
Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by manmal on Thursday May 25, 2023 @01:37AM (#36067356)
I think in this case it wasn’t GIGO but rather a too weak signal/noise ratio for mkvmerge. IMO there’s a subtle distinction.