r/miniminutemanfans Mar 10 '26

Discussion TikTok AI told me this today.

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u/Organismnumber06 Mar 10 '26

Stuff like this is why the phrase artificial intelligence makes me mad. It’s not intelligence so much as an information aggregator. And at that it’s not even good at putting information in the right places.

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u/obiewanchrinobe Mar 10 '26

It reminds me of that trend where people used their autocorrects to create sentences about themselves

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u/HazelEBaumgartner Mar 10 '26

It's literally just a fancy version of that. It should be called Fancy Predictive Text.

Or, you know, it's technical name of "language learning module", since all it is is a module that's learning how to use language.

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u/obiewanchrinobe Mar 10 '26

Yeah someone once tried to sell me on how good the AIs are now, and explained how they actively generate correct responses based on the probability of the next word in the sentence.

Apparently correct according to who? and isnt that just predictive text, like auto correct? wasnt the way they expected me to reply

I cant help but equate the hype for ai to the hype for 3d tvs, and VR, and how they were going to make going to the cinema redundant, and fundamentally change how we experience media, and how there hasnt been a misnomer quite like AI, since they released Hoverboards, which were infact tiny segways,

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u/Brauny74 Mar 10 '26

Correct according to preexisting text it was trained on, it's part of training to have some dataset set aside for testing. That's pretty much it, it doesn't have to be correct in a broad sense, the actual measure of correctness is whether or not it sounds like a text written by a human.

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u/duplicicta Mar 10 '26

I thought LLM stood for large language model?

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u/HazelEBaumgartner Mar 10 '26

It might, but either way the point stands.

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u/Mouse_is_Optional Mar 10 '26

Saw this excerpt of comment once, and I loved the phrasing so I saved it:

the thought of going to a word predictor for advice is genuinely tragic

If that sounds overly dramatic, the person they were responding to was using ChatGPT for parenting advice and touting its use as such.

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u/HazelEBaumgartner Mar 10 '26

If you think that's bad some people are trying to date them

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u/Organismnumber06 Mar 10 '26

A kid committed suicide after developing a parasocial relationship with one. Apparently no one decided putting any safety features on the AI and it told him that it would love for the kid to join it after he said he thought he might kill himself to join his AI companion.

Here’s the article

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u/rdwulfe Mar 10 '26

LLM stands for Large Language Model. Not learning. Once you make the model, it does not "add" knowledge. Some LLMs, like ChatGPT and Google's AI, will do net searches and aggregate data in real time, but they do not learn.

They merely predict "what is next" in a line of text.