The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

  • flere-imsaho
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    124 months ago

    a hunch, really: i’ve met the type and had my suspicions, and then i’ve found that he posted the link about polish antitrust & consumer protection watchdog fining paypal, which is generally niche outside poland.

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      74 months ago

      i’ve seen that too but the final giveaway was this fucking thing:

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・

      from the last comment on awful (after ban)

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      34 months ago

      btw i strongly suspect that there’s a way to tell native language of poster by style of writing and specific kinds of grammar mistakes

      • @froztbyte
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        34 months ago

        it is an often-viable heuristic, yeah