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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

LLMs are quite impressive as chatbots all things considered. The conversations with them are way more realistic and almost as funny as the ones with the IRC markov chain my friend made as a freshman CS student.

Of course, out bot's training data only included the IRC channel's logs of a few years and the Finnish Bible we later threw in for shits and giggles. A training set of approximately zero terabytes in total.

LLMs are less a marvel of machine learning algorithms (though I admit they might play a part) and more one of data scraping. Based on their claims, they have already dug through the vast majority of publicly accessible world wide web, so where do you go from there? Sure, there are a lot of books that are not on the web, but feeding them in the machine is about as hard as getting them on the web to begin with.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Senior year of college, I took an elective seminar on interactive fiction. For the final project, one of my classmates wrote a program that scraped a LiveJournal and converted it into a text adventure game.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
You are standing in an open field west of a
giant castle, with an ornate front door.
Your name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way.
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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR there's a weird sex scene inside I guarantee it

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