Mastodawn

One could spend all day every day telling folks using "mental activity words" to describe LLM output that they are wrong.

It does not "know", it does not "think", it does not "guess", it does not "figure out", it does not "reason", it does not "decide", it does not "feel", it does not "opine", it does not "believe", it does not "see", it does not "lie", it does not do *anything* you'd use a mental activity word for.

And every time they do it, anyway? They make the world just a little worse.

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tipjip 4d ago

@GeePawHill
What would be a good word to describe what it does?

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Violet Madder

@tipjip @GeePawHill

Regurgitate.

Mulch.

Excrete.

"Parrot" implies too much intelligence...

Oh, and don't forget "semantic ablation", that's the term for how it sands down the vocabulary it uses, averaging away anything unique or interesting. Linguistic equivalent of airbrushing somebody's face in a photo until they turn into an unrecognizable blur.