Oddly, “bullshit” qualifies as a technical term in this context. The authors argue that chatgpt (and similar systems) emit bullshit.
They don’t lie or hallucinate because they don’t know or believe anything. It’s all just text modeling.
The focus in this type of AI is to produce text that looks convincing, but it doesn’t have any concept of truth/falsehood, fact or fiction.
When this is the way someone talks, we say that they’re bullshitting us. So it is with chatgpt.
Plot twist. They used ChatGPT to write it – The article is a confession
Let’s hope it’s extra bold. The last one was decidedly UNBOLD.
I wish I was as bold as these authors.
That’s not bold. Just a limited vocabulary.
I’m so sick of people like you. “Oh, they may be right but they were a bit rude. So I’m going to pretend that they are wrong”. Go fuck yourself if you have nothing useful to contribute. This is just a tactic trolls use in the internet to distract people, and people keep falling for it.
Plus if you actually read the article you would know that they are referencing an academic definition of bullshit. So go fuck yourself twice, you didn’t even bother to read before declaring your incredible moral superiority. You are just a clown.
Let me say this slowly for you, so you can maybe understand. I wasn’t criticizing the point in the original article. I was criticizing the OP who said it was “bold.”
Now, run along and argue with someone more your speed. Try 5th graders.
Wow you really got him lmao. Go back to Reddit
The article uses the academically and philosophically defined term “bullshit.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
And I’m not bullshitting, the authors mention it in the abstract.
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Not calling something bullshit when it’s bullshit is itself an example of bullshit.
I love the term too but I wonder how it’ll be used in situations where profanity is discouraged
What are those situations?
Educating children about LLMs for the most part. There are also religious institutions that would like to be informed about LLMs as well
What is the danger of explaining the word “bullshit” to children? Of course like many topics it should be explained carefully e.g. reading Frankfurt before discussing this specific paper.
And religion can politely go fuck itself when it comes to deciding what words professional academics use. They did that long enough already… But actually I know a few religious philosophers and they use the term without complaints.
Understandable, though we should also find ways to explain complex academic concepts, like LLM bullshit, to the general public, including those with strong religious beliefs that may be sensitive to these words. The fact that some religious philosophers already use this term without issue shows that it’s possible to bridge this gap.
Most children are eventually educated on these words. Usually by 1st grade, if I remember right.
What you’re thinking of is what parents think they want reality to be, not reality.
You have a point. I did remember being told that the word “shit” was a curse word that I should always avoid. But that was in the 2000s, so that sentiment may have changed now (that was in the United States and now I’ve been living in Indonesia so I don’t know the evolution of languages there anymore). I know that the word “queer” used to be a slur as well. Let’s see if the word “bullshit” becomes normalized in society as the years go on
BS: Bologna Sandwich. “That’s a load of bologna!”
