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Language models can only write poetry
A recurring theme in participant feedback was that the language model lacked taste and intentionality. It was capable of playing the “yes, and. . . ” improv game (Section 6.3), taking the user’s prompt as a given and running with it, but it lacked any narrative agenda of its own, which explains the abundance of clichés and generic tropes. In contra
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Talking about large language models
arxiv.orgWe, as humans, sometimes receive streams of tokens and produce tokens in response, forming words, sentences, lines of code ... but always with the ability to peek outside the stream and check in with ground-floor reality. We pause and consider: does this word really stand for the thing I intend it to stand for? Does this sentence capture the real e... See more
Are AI Language Models in Hell?
Reading ChatGPT’s writing feels uncanny because there’s no driver at the wheel, no real connection being built*.*