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"Gish Gallop."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth puts it's shows on."

The parable of the pillow feathers https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/812861/jewish...

Pretty astounding that all these people had LLMs back then and didn't release them. It's also crazy that the rabbi was talking with an LLM back then. The folk story precedes modern computers. How did he run inference? There are probably many such secrets in our ancient ancestors' pasts. Who knows how many h100s they had back then?

Alberto tweeted this about 10 years ago, and was discussing it before then. I heard it directly 'out of the horses mouth' in London around that time.

Hi James! ;)

First day on the internet?

Try cable sometime.

I watched some cable news channels once at a friend's. It appears they have already embraced the AI revolution since they had newscasters reading things that seemed unlikely and which I later confirmed to be untrue. The only conclusion is that LLMs hallucinated the text and AI-generated newscasters read it.

Humans would never make the mistakes these guys did. I think we should regulate this news that isn't factual.

I like the deadpan, but just to say it: when billionaires decide something is in their interest to have at least some people believe, they can find someone so unscrupulous that they will repeat the lie on air.

Unless you make that illegal

Oh wait I forgot about the lobbying loophole

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