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Pseudo Profound AI Bullshit (luke-byrne-eng.github.io)
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Yesterday I read Pennycook etc al.'s paper on pseudo-profound bullshit, and realized that's what annoys me the most about the current AI culture.

So then I made this little web app to randomly generate the sort of meaningless nonsense said by AI startup freaks. Your next pitch deck awaits.

https://luke-byrne-eng.github.io/pages/bullshit.html

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[–] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

Maybe I'll add, my first though was this must be some kind of LLM. Some kind of compressed model or something. But that it's just a 20 line string combiner with a handful of templates is somehow even cooler.

Seems topical to Pennycook et al. You don't need a lot of complexity to make it seem like a lot of complexity.