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If you wrote this yourself, congratulations are in order. I was genuinely annoyed. It’s not easy. It’s hard. It’s not entertaining. It’s infuriating.
by port11 5mo ago
If you wrote this yourself, congratulations are in order. I was genuinely annoyed. It’s not easy. It’s hard. It’s not entertaining. It’s infuriating.
- esafak 5mo agoYou're absolutely right! I was at a restaurant the other day and my kid noticed how the waiter started every sentence with "Absolutely!" That reminded me of the Anthropic Super Bowl ad, and got me thinking if the waiter's speech patterns had been influenced by AI.
- garethsprice 5mo agoYes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754 https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754
- mohamedkoubaa 5mo agoEventually we will just speak tokenese rather than english
- port11 5mo agoNonsense. We grew up quoting our favourite shows, abhorring certain words, preferring others. This is just another cultural modification engine, like everything else humans do.
- port11 5mo agoIn my time in the US, way before LLMs, very agreeable and helpful waiters/Whole Foods staff would already be using ‘absolutely!’ in that enthusiastic manner. Helping someone out was always possible, I enjoyed that.