elilla&, famigerada travesti8h ago

generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts.

guess the results:
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/post/3mhntbkyadc24

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/post/3mhoqx2xugk24

Dan Conway (@magisterconway.bsky.social)

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Show threadelilla&, famigerada travesti8h ago

"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"

then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.

some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.

Show threadLoad average8h ago
@elilla "signal-shaped noise" is a very apt description. Thank you.
Show threadJakobT
@laprice @elilla
This is spot on! I could point to a lot of equations that prove exactly this, but there is no need for it - we intuitively know it is true!
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