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Same reason it cannot write a top rated comment on this thread despite being a perfect prompt. Same reason why AI cant write a sales email.

Shit AI produces lacks any depth and meaning. On the surfaced it looks legit to amateurs typing prompts in an area they are not experts in.

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I find it interesting that this analog to Gell-Mann Amnesia is so strong, and likely results from the models having absorbed so much journalism and other internet content of similar quality. They seem brilliant in areas you're ignorant of, and rubbish on things you know well.

It's amazingly hard for people to accept what that logically implies, whether they are thinking about journalists, politicians/celebrities, or LLMs.

Yea thats why its so attractive to pointy haired manager types because from their pov it looks like its doing everything his underlings spend lot of time doing.

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