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I think this kind of argument is a modified version of an ad-hominem attack. When you disagree with an argument, you are supposed to address the argument itsel
by ddtaylor 7mo ago
I think this kind of argument is a modified version of an ad-hominem attack.
When you disagree with an argument, you are supposed to address the argument itself, not the thing making the argument.
- hananova 7mo agoAd-hominem (literally: "to the person") requires a person on the other side of the argument. This wasn't made or written by a person, thus ad-hominem does not apply.
- grumpymuppet 7mo agoPresumably why the person you are responding to called it a modified ad hominem.
- samrus 7mo agoThats a bit pedantic. Youre still arguing against an entity rather than addressing the argument. If you prompted an LLM to make a PSA that people should brush their teeth, is it a fair to argue that brushing your teeth is bad because an LLM made the argument?
- egberts1 7mo agoLet's call it "Ad machinam". A literal form of "to the machine”: none of the rights that a person has. Example usage: “That’s not a rebuttal; it’s an argumentum ad machinam -- you’re rejecting it just because AI wrote it.”
- normalaccess 7mo agoAnd really when you think about it, all AI is is just the a statical recombination of (almost) everything that (almost) everyone has written. So it's a kind of mechanical recombination of ideas.
- egberts1 7mo agoAlmost like reject the argument because the logical reasoning was supplied emotionally.
- tmaly 7mo agoMaybe we need a phrase like ad-machinam to attack LLMs.
- watwut 7mo agoThat went out of window and provably failed even before LLM. The strategy of flooding everything with cheap false claims and arguments while demanding that the opponent spends increasing amount of effort and time was a success even before. It became worst with LLM. So, no, you are making the claim, first prove it is worth any of that effort.
- ddtaylor 7mo agoThis seems like a chicken and egg problem.
- api 7mo agoMade me coin a term. Ad hominllm: the dismissal of a work or an argument because an LLM was, or may have been, used in its construction or editing.
- Ylpertnodi 7mo agoPronounced: ad homin-ellem?