“A.I. has made super-high-resolution images so standard, he added, that they have lost all currency as signals of quality. Distinguishing oneself aesthetically requires letting conspicuous human effort show.”
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As slick, machine-generated visuals become ubiquitous, artists and designers are embracing a style of handmade imperfection.
Warm models are more likely to affirm incorrect beliefs
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AI developers are building chatbots with sycophantic personas.
But creating warm models promotes conspiracy theories, provides inaccurate information & offers incorrect medical advice.
These models also validate incorrect beliefs, particularly sadness. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Experiments on five different language models show that training language models to produce warmer responses can undermine the accuracy of their output, especially when users express feelings of sadne...
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many dysfunctions of academic publishing get exposed by way or llm use, and i keep hoping we'll realize how poorly we've been doing so many things, but we end up focusing on llms as the root cause. i've read so many unrealistic, utopic statements about how scientific practice allegedly works.
