That’s fair, I can see that. I would bet though if I took one of the other two I could pass it off as my own words easily enough.

Yes, good eye!

Yep! Good eye.

I see some human patterns in there.

I took your post and gave it along with the prompt “you’re a Lemmy user, reply to this post saying the goal of LLM is to mimic human speech”

Guess which two were written by Gemini and which was written by my brain:

A) That’s the thing, though—LLMs are literally trained to mimic human writing patterns and quirks. Seeing “human patterns” in text doesn’t really rule out LLM generation anymore; it just means the model (or the prompting) was good at recreating how people actually talk and write.

B) The core purpose of an LLM is literally to mimic human text patterns, so seeing “human patterns” in a piece doesn’t mean it wasn’t generated or heavily written by AI. That’s just the tool doing its job.

C) Considering LLM are literally made to model human language; you’re going to see plenty of human patterns in LLM output. Hell that’s their selling point - you can’t tell it wasn’t made by a person!

33% chance you’ll guess right and maybe you still do know for real, and that’s great! You’re right that there is some “Je ne sai quoi” in the way humans speak but these LLM have gotten scary good at sounding like people. Especially if you don’t already know the “voice” of whoever wrote what you’re reading. Like certain grammatical tells of sorts.

Edit: I just realized this is even harder because my Gemini has a bunch of my writing to use for training data and defaults to trying to mimic my tone and style.

My god that poor machine

Yeah, you can even throw a /f in there to force close all apps so it will kill everything and go nighty night. I used to use it with /t command if I wanted to download something while I was out but not have the PC run all day.

That’s not the best way to turn your PC off but hell half the time I just murder mine by holding down the power button anyways. As long as you’re not being crazy shutting her down in the middle of some data operations you’ll be fine.

Damn, I have the exact opposite opinion on the show.

I think it’s clever and has some fun moments of subversion in the writing and the plots may be meandering but they all make sense inside the reality of the world the characters are in.

Then again I never interact with the fandom and I just watch it because I like the show and find it fun. Mid 30s dude here so take it for what it’s worth. Of course, with all the drugs, I might just have the mental maturity of a 13 year old by now so maybe that’s why I like it.

People are pretty dumb.

I didn’t say they were going to save the world, no more than the USA did or any nation state turned empire.

I do think China will eclipse America when it comes to being in a position of strong global leadership and the hegemonic power on the world stage. The USA seems to be shirking our duties, reshaping and destroying our society’s moral fabric, racing towards worse and worse education results and hellbent on making sure our healthcare is broken and our people are fat and dumb.

It’s not a winning recipe, even with a military that can dominate.

Every country has its problems and its demons, China is no different and certainly their problems are complex and grand. As far as greater or lesser evils - I’d put the USA and China about on par for all the fucked up stuff we have done the past hundred years and keep doing now.

I’d love to at least visit China sometime - honestly there’s so much fascinating history and getting to see a different approach to community building and infrastructure planning would be neat.

Tastes like coffee.

It’s not bad if you actually pay attention and don’t just leave it percolating forever like a madman.

It just has a bad rep because people psychos will let it keep percolating for way too long and it over extracts the beans and gets really bitter and gross. If you use it like you should it tastes fine, maybe not as good as other forms of coffee making but it isn’t bad per se.

This is the dawn of the new Chinese century. I have no doubt in 20 more years China will be in an even stronger position as the USA continues to decline.

We, the USA, could do all the stuff that would make us competitive. That would require more socialism, more taxing of billionaires, more spending in green energy, education, transportation, healthcare becoming affordable and an actual human right for all in our borders, a real plan to transition off fossil fuels and shore up our domestic energy production and electric grid.

Idk more than that of course but that’s the elevator pitch.

We won’t do it though because corrupt capitalism and the oligarchy.

Maybe we will if at some point enough of us are struggling but we’re pretty fat and have plenty of entertainment to distract us even if we are being fucked. So … Yeah … Desperately hoping I’m wrong about most of my predictions, devastated as I keep seeing them come true.