Tim Scarfe: evaluation

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…put gates on people uploading things there as well. Right. Yeah. And they had this ban. It's like a 1 year ban if if you have a hallucinated citation. Yeah. But it's yeah. It's sad in a way because it makes it harder especially for for new people and like young people to to break in to that stuff like because then they they don't have any any comma or anything to show. I I know. But I think the the the the broad reason we have this problem is that this technology is the most deceptive thing ever created in human history. Right? And it's a serious problem, because it's all about epistemic subjectivity, which is that you generate things that you don't understand, and it convinces you that it's correct, and you can't see the glitches. And obviously, an expert can look at it and see the glitches straight away, but and it creates dependency. You know, when you start posting stuff that you that you don't, you know, you don't understand, you want to be consistent. Right? You you you've now made a statement that I know about this thing, I'm gonna keep doing it. And then weirdly, people are very defensive about it as well, because if you criticize work that they've done with Claude, they take it personally. So it just creates this perpetuating cycle. It creates a feeling of understanding that you might not actually have, right? And it's like, I don't know, doing an exam or copying somebody else's work, like you might feel like you wrote it but you don't, your brain didn't go through the motions. And yeah, I think it's dangerous also for like if you're worried about sort of AI taking over, you know, because it's not like it's not just that it's getting smarter, it's also that humans are getting dumber, like we no longer like know and like we get get lazy in terms of understanding stuff. We don't read the papers, you just put them in AI and be like, oh explain this paper to me or something. But yeah, it's it's strange right because on the other hand, I mean it can be like this big level, like speed, like it can speed you up so much so it's it's to not use it. But like finding out when you should stop and when you should start using it again.…

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