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Ad-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 a
by hananova 7mo ago
Ad-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.