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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by carschno on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:09AM (#49461461)
Maybe it should be called 'ambiguity' problem then. An issue that famously emerges from trying to use natural language for instructing computers: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by verve_rat on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:25AM (#49461588)
Or indeed natural language to instruct humans.

If it was easy to specify exactly the behaviour you wanted then we probably wouldn't have contract law.

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