One thing to bear in mind is that, whenever someone accustomed to one platform explores another, they’ll tend to ascribe any differences between the communities to the other platform being an echo chamber of some kind.
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He didn’t need a name that declared he made meth, he needed a name that distinguished him from other meth makers.
Seems like an effective strategy—someone write that down!
You mean Eurydice?
Presumably there was something in the training data that caused this pattern. The difficulty is in predicting beforehand what the exact effect of changes to the training data will be.
Is it a simple error that OpenAI has yet to address
Since even their own creators can’t understand or control LLMs at that level of granularity, that seems to go without saying. Although calling it an “error” implies that there’s some criterion for defining correct behavior, which no one has yet agreed on.
or has someone named David Mayer taken steps to remove his digital footprint
Sure—someone gained a level of control over ChatGPT beyond that of its own developers, and used that power to prevent it from inventing gossip about himself. (ChatGPT output isn’t even a digital footprint, it’s a digital hallucination.)
A quick Google search of the name leads to results about British adventurer and environmentalist David Mayer de Rothschild...
Oh, FFS.
What increased rates are you referring to? According to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal cancer rates in the past five years have declined by 1% for men and 0.7% for women.
Wild boars, on the other hand, are a serious problem in Japan.
I learned that from watching Princess Mononoke.
He could still run for a second term.
Or maybe Buy-N-Large never got a license from Novo Nordisk.
Schrödinger’s downvote.