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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

I'm not a big AI guy but it's really not quite like that, models do NOT contain all the data they were trained on.

Edit: I have no idea what's going on down below this comment

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

that's a misleading and meaningless way of putting it. if I rip a page out of my textbook and bring it into an exam room, I do not have with me all the data in my textbook. and yet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It doesn’t do that, either. LLMs retain the linguistic patterns found in textbooks, nothing more. It’s remarkable that they can do so much with this information alone, but it’s still a far cry from genuine intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And yet they can spit out copyrighted material verbatim, or near-verbatim, how strange and peculiar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago
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