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Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:19PM (#46332121)
They said it plainly ("dark corners that someone could use to misrepresent the goals of our project"): they just don't want to see their project in headlines about "Researchers create racist LLM!".
Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:35AM (#46272218)
Seems to me there are way fewer farmers per capita and yet much more food produced, thanks to more & improved capital use in farming.
I am not responding to the examples, and I am not challenging the claim that famous vs not famous author does not matter, or that dead tree vs screen does not matter; I am raising the question whether it's just a quantity issue ("Just so long as they read", "entire novels worth of text").

Is it? I am not sure either way. Do you lose something by only reading chapters of a novel but never the whole story from the beginning to the end, even if you're still reading the same amount?

The question is whether reading:

- an entire novel worth of short texts, beginning to end

- an entire novel worth of short excerpts from longer texts

- an entire novel, beginning to end

are the same things.