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The best (worst) part is that the results are the most shallow top level basic ass things you'd hope you could say about any sufficiently non demon-possessed child.

Yah :( And people wave it around as an example of all the good things AI can do. It's like hiring a completely uneducated personal assistant who works very quickly at very low cost.

As you may have heard, for some people it's now preferred to call it SI - Stupid Intelligence

I just call it Automated Information

That wouldn't work for me. To me, "information" would imply some connection to facts or reality, neither of which LLMs have any notion of. I suppose "Artificial Information" might do the trick. That seems right up there with "alternative facts".

For me it's TPS. It's text prediction software, plain and simple. Also gives me a chance to use this gif.

and when we had the first, most basic text prediction over 50 years ago people still anthropomorphized it and thought of it like a person, even though none of the developers tried to claim it was