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One of the worst-case scenarios I can presently imagine for LLMs is a world so drowned in semi-plausible nonsense that new generations teach themselves to simpl
by RodgerTheGreat 3y ago
One of the worst-case scenarios I can presently imagine for LLMs is a world so drowned in semi-plausible nonsense that new generations teach themselves to simply ignore the printed word, subconsciously categorizing it as noise, and in so doing essentially un-invent literacy.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoThen, maybe, we can re-invent libraries. (https://xkcd.com/1909/ https://xkcd.com/1909/)
- fzzzy 3y agoLiteracy isn't required if a computer can read any text. That is a huge amount of the brain that could be applied to something else.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoI genuinely haven't in some time read an opinion so horrifying as this. Well done.
- RodgerTheGreat 3y agoDo you think it would have the same psychological impact if you had to ask your cell phone to read it to you?
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoIf nothing else the irony would be painful.