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> People aren't much different. If I had a nickel for every time someone on HN responded to a criticism of LLMs with a vapid and fallacious whataboutist variat
by miyoji 6mo ago
> People aren't much different.
If I had a nickel for every time someone on HN responded to a criticism of LLMs with a vapid and fallacious whataboutist variation of "humans do that too!", I could fund my own AI lab.
> Why does this surprise us?
No one said they were surprised.
- Terr_ 6mo agoIn this case I think parent-poster is trying to explain a phenomenon, rather than downplay the problem.
- emp17344 6mo agoBut it’s actively unhelpful in explaining the phenomenon, as there is no justification for equivocating LLM and human behavior. It’s just confusing and misleading.
- danielmarkbruce 6mo agoThis is obviously wrong. LLMs are trained on material humans created. Everything they output is a result of a human input, even if not a direct result.
- danielmarkbruce 6mo agoMost of the statements about humans doing the thing the LLM does are both meaningful and factual. They are meaningful because people call such things out as evidence of LLMs being stupid, and they are factual because in many cases humans do the thing.