I Was Once an AI True Believer. Now I Think It's Rotting From the Inside
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I've been pointing this out here for quite some time.
It's a slow motion train wreck that few want to acknowledge --- apparently because of the money to be made.
The only thing LLMs truly excel at is generating nice, grammatically correct prose. Never mind the shortcomings in what is being said.