Quark Bee
Quark Bee
@quarkbee.bsky.social
tired and jaded, here for the cats and the gay stuff Trans Rights and Free Palestine
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@olivia.science how does one respond constructively, without expletives, to someone simulating humans in ChatGPT to "develop better policy options for justice and sustainability"? (Janne M. Korhonen in case he blocks me. Wouldn't even blame him, my responses seem unhinged. Men like him trigger me.)
So. I study how well LLMs can simulate human responses. Tuning an #LLM to respond like a particular human or a group is a legit idea that interests not only marketing companies but academic researchers too. (Me, for one.) And the results can be *surprisingly* good. Like 85% accurate. (Thread.)
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social wrote that the phrase "nobody saw it coming" tells you who the speaker considers to be "nobody" Because plenty of "nobodies" DID see it coming: feminists, black people, disabled activists, environmental justice activists, indigenous people, trans and other queer people...
Hard disagree. Children and adults can and do enjoy a lot of the same things. What we *do* need to get better about casting off, though, is stuff that upon reflection is actually pure shit. Like stories where a girl gets ridiculed for wanting to abolish slavery and the hero ends up being chief cop
My increasingly close-held crank take is that we need to be way better about casting off childish things, or at the bare minimum recognizing they’re for children and feeling weird about that