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		jameslk 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with... Telling people who are playing slot machines “it’s just a random number generator with fixed probabilities in a metal box” doesn’t usually work either

rsynnott 45 days ago [–]

I feel like the average slot machine user is _far_ more aware of this than the average LLM user is of the nature of an LLM, tho. A lot of laypeople genuinely think that they think.

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