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In my experience LLMs are almost spooky good at understanding private dialects/baroque references/etc - you'd need to put them in some kind of "ask questions and learn" mode to start, but once they write a memory block or two about your ideal shopping outcomes, they'd be pretty good at this

lmao i absolutely just speak to claude in aave and aside from occasionally scare quoting me, it does fine without so much as a dot md of guidance

it doesn't like being called reclaimed slurs but otherwise, it's pretty swell at this whole cultural awareness thing. at least 10 times better at it than most white humans i converse with

the specific entity "family dialect" requires translating, but also, yeah, you don't ask ai for shit you ask your sister for, ai isn't your sister. it also requires translation even for middle class whites, because "the good lefse" and "the good collards" are both "things only your sister knows"

So many people I used to respect are losing that respect by behaving as Cottom did here. So incurious, so aggressive.

Why did you respect her?