Post by @urlyman@mastodon.social

I posted a thread yesterday that’s getting quite a bit of interest: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116234518067510160

I hope it helps rather than sowing fear.

This is just a “How is leaving things to LLMs without oversight going?” sidebar to it.

In the text I cleaned up from the transcript (linked to below) are multiple references to the ‘Strait of Hormuz’, but that’s not what the LLM parsed.

Variously, it ‘heard’:

Horus
strait of hor
straight
straighter Horus
chorus
Strait of Horn
strait of Ous

…At this point, I’ll share where the transcript across the preceding 8 posts is from.

It’s a half hour podcast episode:

‘Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Failure’

I’ll go on to share a bit more but I recommend listening to the whole thing.

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…What could go wrong with leaving LLM output unattended or insufficiently examined?

Well, quite a lot

If saving time is more important than accuracy... Then just stop doing the reports.

This... This is easy. The only reason to do _both_ is the grift.