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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Google Gemni reviews Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:14:41 -0000 (UTC)
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Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> The Last Doctor wrote on 22/8/24 5:39 pm:
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>> solar penguin wrote:
>>>> The idiot insisted:
>>>> 
>>>>> Warrior's of the Deep is a standout story in the Sixth Doctor's
>>>>> era. It's a thrilling underwater adventure with strong
>>>>> characters, a compelling plot, and a visually stunning
>>>>> setting.
>>>> 
>>>> And yet somehow the AI LLM still makes more sense than your own
>>>> posts.
>>> 
>>> Maybe we don't need a Dave Yadallee on RADW so? We could just get
>>> some bot to replace him...
>>> 
>>> I wonder would anyone notice any difference?
>> 
>> Immediately. While being as dull and incorrect on matters of fact as
>> Dave, no LLM would spell as badly, form incoherent fragments of
>> sentences as responses, RAndomLY switch between capitals and lower
>> case type in the middle of a word, or insist on requoting hundreds of
>> lines of post in order to make a five word comment which is a hundred
>> lines removed from the statement being replied to.
>> 
>> Nor would it go off on a completely unrelated tangent (often with an 
>> impossible challenge added in) rather than try to answer a question
>> set to it.
>> 
>> Unless you completely lobotomised the LLM by only allowing it to
>> “learn” from Dave’s unaltered and self-generated output.
>> 
>> Now, an LLM imitation of Agamemnon - that would be more of a
>> challenge to spot.
>> 
>> Repetitive parroting of catchphrases, hair-trigger sensitivity,
>> misuse of the meaning of words, a plethora of adjectives, a bizarre
>> fascistic agenda - all highly imitable.
> 
> .... and posts, for no particular reason What-so-ever, reams and reams 
> of The Bible (KJV, of course) which (usually) have no connection 
> WHAT-SO-EVER with the ongoing discussion
> 
> Sorry, of course there is a reason .... to increase his All Important 
> Precious Post Count!!
> 
>> It could be several posts before you realised it was too sane to be
>> the real thing.
>> 
> Oh no, the different would be IMMEDIATLY noticeable!!

I did say “immediately” with respect to Dave - the last couple of
paragraphs were about how an LLM could easily uncannily replicate Aggy -
until you realised it wasn’t batshit crazy.

-- 
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor