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xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 106 points 2 months ago (21 children)

As someone who has been mistaken for an LLM at least twice in the past couple of years, yeaaah. Sometimes I write like that. The LLMs learned from people like me. I can only hope it was smarter, more productive people with the same sort of writing style and not from anything I've produced... although it would explain a thing or two.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Nope. It's you and me, buddy. They learned from a fancy talker and a drunk. That's why they just make shit up.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In Denmark we have a saying, which (translated) is "the truth shall be heard from children and drunk people"

I guess fancy talkers are kinda children too, or at least former ones 🤷

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