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Subject: Re: XhatGPT; How many physicists accept =?UTF-8?B?R1I/?=
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 07:44:17 +0000
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 4:54:33 +0000, Sylvia Else wrote:

> On 16-Nov-24 9:52 am, rhertz wrote:
>> ChatGPT entered in crisis here, after I asked HOW MANY (worldwide).
>>
>>
>
> You realise that it's just a language model based on trawling the
> Internet?
>
> It's not intelligent. I doesn't know anything. It cannot reason. It just
> composes sentences based on word probabilities derived from the
> trawling.
>
> And guess what? The Internet contains a lot of garbage; garbage that's
> been fed into the language model.

...and an increasingly large proportion of the garbage being fed into
the large language models is garbage GENERATED by large language
models.

The "Mad Cow Disease" crisis of the 1980s is believed to have been due
to the practice of feeding cattle meal that contained cattle and sheep
by-products. As LLM output becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish
from human output (which is often bad enough!), I predict an outbreak of
"Mad LLM Disease".