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kazinator wrote: post #133
stared wrote: post #20

Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...

That reminds me of an anecdote that my high school English teacher used to tell, as a way of cautioning against use of thesauruses: some student substituted "flatus" for "wind" in their composition, writing something like "a gentle flatus was blowing from the bay".

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Post by nickdothutton »

Once had a lengthy battle with a marketing person. They attempted to change "uninterruptible" (as in Uninterruptible Power Supply) into non-interruptible, and then finally into interruptible. Took the best part of a week to get it fixed.

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by sebastiennight »

stymaar wrote: post #135
xgulfie wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Autocorrect unleashed doesn't sound like any AI either but that doesn't stop anyone from calling it that

Aren't most autocorrect transformer-based?

Historically, no.

The simplest way to build autocorrect is to have a dictionary, look it up for each word, and suggest the "closest" dictionary word if a typed word is absent from the dictionary.

It has existed way before transformers and on platforms that couldn't dream of running even the smallest transformer.

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Post by sebastiennight »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #45
sandworm101 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

African American-tie dinner. Spin City 1996.

Related, from 1988: https://bousbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image-9.png

This phenomenon is called the Euphemism Treadmill:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism_treadmill

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by userbinator »

lq9AJ8yrfs wrote: post #50

"Kidney transplantation is a surgery to eliminate a sound, working kidney from a living or cerebrum dead giver and embed it into a patient with non-working kidneys. Kidney transplantation is performed on patients with persistent kidney disappointment, or end-stage renal illness (ESRD). ESRD happens when a sickness or confusion harms the kidneys with the goal that they are presently not able to do satisfactorily elimi…

I wonder if anyone else felt a somewhat "late 19th/early 20th-century" style in that paragraph; "sickness or confusion" and "liquids and squanders" stood out in particular.

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Post by userbinator »

As others have pointed out, this phenomenon is pre-AI; but what perplexes me about LLMs is how unnatural their output can be, despite being trained on real human English. A recent example I saw here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235242

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Post by sublinear »

sebastiennight wrote: post #143
stymaar wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't most autocorrect transformer-based?

Historically, no. The simplest way to build autocorrect is to have a dictionary, look it up for each word, and suggest the "closest" dictionary word if a typed word is absent from the dictionary. It has existed way before transformers and on platforms that couldn't dream of running even the smallest transformer.

What do you mean by "look it up" if not measure the closest dictionary word by edit distance?

I think you'll find the broader idea of word vectorization to be remarkably similar to what text transformers do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance

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Post by rafram »

logicallee wrote: post #114
rafram wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m having a hard time figuring out if this State of Utopia thing is tongue-in-cheek or serious.

it's serious but still a small project, there isn't much on the site. I personally would like the law I linked to be followed. I sent a copy to the major browser makers and left this suggestion: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/comply-with-choose-cook... where it got 1 kudos from a community manager but no other upvotes or comments. The announcement of the law here on HN (linked in my gp comment) got 2 upvotes an…

I have to be honest, to someone who knows nothing about you, this is all a little concerning.
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