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Re:Artificial Insanity by tptacek on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:48PM (#50048172)
Not at all the same idea. People also rathole into doomed approaches. What we're talking about here is literally LLMs producing line noise, or English words that don't fit into sentences.

(I don't think LLMs are "sentient".)

Re:Artificial Insanity by m3galinux on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:19PM (#50064911)
You haven't accidentally sent a prompt to a locally-running LLM using the wrong delimiters/formatting then. Noise, random parts of words, looping repetition, it all happens.
Re:Artificial Insanity by tptacek on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:09PM (#50065285)
Sure, I have no idea what you're running locally, just assume I'm talking about frontier models. It doesn't matter to the argument, because the "stochastic parrot" claim --- here and in Gebru's paper --- is categorical.