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

submitted 2 days ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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