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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the end they had 18481 words of notes to go through. Which is not nothing but also not that much. [...] Mozilla also seems to know. And they had an innovative solution: THEY HAD AN LLM SUMMARIZE THE NOTES TO REDUCE BIAS.

It feels like the AI contingent lost the attention span to actually read stuff somewhere along the line. This isn't the first time I've seen this garbage approach. ~~Of course here at awful.systems we've been innoculated against declining attention spans due to regularly having to read lesswrong dissertations.~~

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To avoid confirmation bias and subjective interpretation, we decided to leverage language models for a more objective analysis of the data. By providing the models with the complete set of notes, we aimed to uncover patterns and trends without our pre-existing notions and biases.

... the Hell?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah it's wild. Even most AI grifters don't outright try to claim that LLMs reduce bias (they know we'd laugh at them even harder than usual) so mozilla.ai is in deep.