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Cat Hicks May 27, 2023

I canNOT believe this but the woman making the program for my grandpa's memorial services couldn't find the poem that had been picked for the beginning and asked some LLM (I don't know what platform it was very confusing) to write the poem based on her vague memory of some lines of it and that's what she read and said was my grandpa's favorite

I'm honestly like, hysterically laughing about it and also hurt and horrified. What a time to be alive

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Cat Hicks

Thanks for the kind responses on this - my grandpa would have enjoyed the fact that this story got an audience. He loved human writing and often said things like everyone should try to write a book (he was always expectantly asking me about the fact that I haven't published one when my mom and wife both have 😂 ). In his study were well-worn and open books of Hebrew and Hawaiian languages which he was still working on at 97. He had an incredible mind.

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Jon (now at neuromatch.social)May 28, 2023

@grimalkina Thank you for sharing that! As they say, may his memory be a blessing.