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Re:The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copy... by wrs on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:04PM (#38783955)
Except it doesn’t memorize text. It generates text that is statistically likely. Generating a citation that is statistically likely wouldn’t really help the problem.
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Re:The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copy... by __loam on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:06PM (#38789161)
So it's just bullshit then.
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Re:The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copy... by fennecbutt on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:09PM (#38796431)
It's literally how our meat bag brains work pretty much.

Anything like word association games are basically the same exercise, but with humans and hell, I bet I could play a word association game with an LLM, too.

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