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Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless" (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] Ultraviolet 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think this one is even an LLM, it looks like the output of a basic article spinning script that takes an existing article and replaces random words with synonyms.

[โ€“] BetaDoggo_ 17 points 1 year ago

This seems like the case. One of the first stanzas:

Hunter, initially a extremely regarded highschool basketball participant in Cincinnati, achieved vital success as a ahead for the Bobcats.

Language models are text prediction machines. None of this text is predictable and it contains basic grammatical errors that even small models will almost never make.