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To me that seems like we're mistaken in mixing fiction and non-fiction in AI training data. The "a revolutionary titan of industry" makes sense if you where rea
by mrweasel 9mo ago
To me that seems like we're mistaken in mixing fiction and non-fiction in AI training data. The "a revolutionary titan of industry" makes sense if you where reading a novel where something like 90% of a book is describing the people, locations, objects and circumstances. The author of a novel would want to use exaggeration and more colourful words to underscore a uniquely important person, but "this week in trains" would probably de-emphasize the person and focus on the train-coupler.
- lacunary 9mo agofiction is part of our shared language and culture. we communicate by making analogies, and our stories, especially our old ones, provide a rich basis to draw upon. neither a person nor an llm can be fluent users of human language without spending time learning from both fiction and non-fiction.