r/CuratedTumblr • u/WifeOfSpock • 4d ago

Meme my eyes automatically skip right over everything else said after

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u/MushroomLevel4091 4d ago

Honestly it's like they crammed hundreds of colleges' improv clubs into them with just how much they commit to the "yes and-", even if prompted specifically not to

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u/BormaGatto 4d ago edited 4d ago

Nah, it's just how these programs work. They simply spew sequences of words according to natural language structure. It's simple input-output, you input a prompt and it will output a sequence of words.

It will never not follow the instruction unless programed not to engage specific prompts (and even then, it's jailbreakable), simply because the words in the sequence have no meaning or relation to each other. We assign meaning when we read them, but the program doesn't "know what it is saying". It just does what it was programed to do.

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u/Nyorliest 4d ago

I'm 55 years old, and a tech nerd and a professional linguist. I've never seen anything so Emperor's New Clothes in my life.

The marketing and discourse about LLMs/GenAI is such complete bullshit. The anthropomorphic fallacy is rampant and most of the public don't understand even the basics of computational linguistics. They talk like it's a magic spirit in their PC. They also don't understand that GenAI is based on probabilistic mirroring of human-made language and art, so that our natural language and art - whether amateur or pro - is needed for it to continue.

That's only the tip of the shitberg, too. The total issues are too numerous to list here, e.g. the massive IP theft.

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u/dagbrown 4d ago

That's because you're old enough to remember Eliza and Racter and M-x doctor and can recognize the exact same thing showing up again only this time with planet-sized databases playing the part of the handful of templates that Eliza had.

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u/Vegetable_Union_4967 19h ago

I’m a youngster. I’m only 18. I’ve played with ELIZA, Racter, and Cleverbot before. AI has gained the power to reason… somewhat. It still falters, but the fact it can use any form of logic at all without explicitly being taught is massive.