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Re:I Am Tired of AI by fluoridation on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:31PM (#41676563)
>But once a model is large enough to generate coherent sentences, persuasiveness kinda...stops. All large models are about equally persuasive. No runaway scaling laws are evident here.

Isn't that kind of obvious? Even human speakers and writers have problems changing people's minds, let alone reliably.

Re:I Am Tired of AI by klipt on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:54AM (#41678197)
The only people who changed minds reliably were Age of Empires priests. Wololo, wololo!
Re:I Am Tired of AI by lmm on Saturday September 28, 2024 @03:58AM (#41678671)
The ceiling may be low, but there are definitely human writers that are an order of magnitude more effective than the average can-write-coherent-sentences human.