Why are we training AIs on reddit posts instead of Research Papers? We could be saving the world! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago

Who is "we"? My understanding is LLMs are mostly being trained on a large amount of publicly available texts, including both reddit posts and research papers.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I bet the first and only research paper fed is that infamous one about vaccines and autism

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