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amplifying a certain perspective

2025-07-31 20:37:14.793843+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@urlyman Many politicians are functionally equivalent to LLM chatbots.

Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@urlyman BTW I have said (perhaps not here) that the criticism of LLMs that they don't actually display intelligence in the human sense is true in a way, but also not really true. They do resemble some categories of dumb and/or dishonest humans, or humans charmed by the sound of their own voice, or mediocre students trying to bluff their way through an exam.
In our really existing society we have to manage living together with, and often navigating around, such people, many of which make it to positions of power. And we are not very good at that. Seen in this light, LLMs are really a force multiplier for that problem, something that makes it more visible and consequential, not so much a sui generis or qualitatively new problem or threat.

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