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Re:Oops! We Automated Bullshit by QuantumGood on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:43PM (#38307079) 

    it does mean they're about "language" rather than knowledge
Language in part encodes knowledge.
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Re:Oops! We Automated Bullshit by smoldesu on Friday November 17, 2023 @03:19PM (#38309458)
It also encodes opinions, fantasy, bad-faith arguments and lies without discrimination. Given that LLMs aren't trained to separate their sources, I think it's fair to say today's AI focuses more on language than the integrity of it's answer.
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Re:Oops! We Automated Bullshit by QuantumGood on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:41PM (#38312357)
Agreed, discriminating what language contains is the issue.
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