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To be honest, I have played enough of these games where they ask you "was it $RANDOM_FAMOUS_PERSON who said this, or Hitler?" that I know how terrible it would
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
To be honest, I have played enough of these games where they ask you "was it $RANDOM_FAMOUS_PERSON who said this, or Hitler?" that I know how terrible it would be to actually extract any conclusions from this game. It's not that $RANDOM_FAMOUS_PERSON was close in thought to Hitler (what these popular games inevitably try to claim). It's not that you suck at distinguishing people from Hitler wannabees (which is also often claimed). It's just that if you select the quotes well enough, most speeches have large swaths of what coincidentally amounts to the same writing. It's like the birthday paradox of prose.
That does not mean that most speeches express entirely the same thoughts, much less than most famous persons all have the same speeches, all the way from Hitler.
The same ML model would not even approach passing the Turing Test. How can anyone claim it can "impersonate" a famous philosopher? This is just absolutely misleading clickbait.
- FabHK 4y ago+1 for "birthday paradox of prose" - nicely said.