Mastodawn

A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.

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Jed Brown 3d ago

@thomasfuchs I can relate to this sentiment, but the paper refutes that "perceived ethicality" (or "perceived capability") explains the discrepancy.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429251314491

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Feff 2d ago

@jedbrown @thomasfuchs
I can't access the paper but I do wonder how they determined the literacy levels of participants

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

@feff @jedbrown @thomasfuchs

I imagine just asking people how they think LLMs work. Those who answer 'it's a bullshit engine built off an empire's worth of stolen goods' would, by my standards, receive top marks.