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Maggie Appleton on Digital Gardening

The Informed Life

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The Effect of Web Mentions on Human Connection

I'm very worried about our ability to connect with one another and like form relationships when everything you read on the web is no longer has a human behind it. It's just going to be, you know, rehashed stuff out of language models. And that doesn't mean that the content isn't true or it isn't accurate, right? We have trained these models to actually be quite accurate. But there isn't a human behind them. So you can't have a relationship with whoever's writing these words. That's not a thoughtful reasoning process at scale. I think there's a great way to use language models to make us all better researchers and thinkers.

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