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Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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post #186

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> So taking Amazon's reason at face value Having dealt directly with managing abuse and handling account terminations, the reason you are told is never the actual reason. As annoying as it is for the 1% of false positives to not get a straight answer, the net effect is the 99% of bad actors don't know what they did to get booted - which means they can't adapt as easily.

Major [citation needed] on that 1%/99% separation there.

Be my guest: https://www.indeed.com/q-fraud-analyst-l-california-jobs.htm...

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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post #143

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> Domain experts get the most out of it. The average person really can't use it well. This is the exact opposite of what research has shown so far. Top performers show productivity _decreases_ with LLM assistance, lower performers and less experienced users show a modest improvement. [0] [0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161

I reckon the midwit meme applies here. Noobs think AI is amazing. Midwits who never bothered to try to leverage it or can't evaluate it or just regurgitate what they hear think it's shit. I wager these people don't create much so they don't have a domain to really apply it, so they rely on others to report how good/bad/useful/shit it is. Then there are creators or tinkerers who've leveraged AI to do obviously time-sa…

I figured you would have no response here. Dropping in calling people midwits for not totally fawning over these word generators without even a single example.
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