Why “LLM” is being discussed
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> I'm curious about why LLM writing fails. Apart from the tasteless manipulations of the providers, it's also training data. LLMs output the average of their training data, and…
by classified · Sep 6, 2026
While admittedly this can be a bit risky, there's a lot less possible blast radius or thing that can go catastrophically wrong if you give the LLM the ssh keys and sudo access o…
by walrus01 · Sep 6, 2026
For FOSS I personally prefer Apache 2.0 license, as 10 years from now I have no idea what people will need for their projects. Personally, it makes me happy if people can make a…
by Joel_Mckay · Sep 6, 2026
> Now not anymore you just need to tell the LLM and it does it in both, and you get better results too. That's weird I just asked fable to build airbnb app clone and it didn't d…
by mcrk · Sep 6, 2026
There is no group of people who put enormous amounts of effort into not putting effort in to writing. To fully disguise LLM prose, you'd have to rewrite it entirely, and if you…
by Planktonne · Sep 6, 2026
So you believe that writers are not making the necessary effort and write using LLMs, so you then use an automatic LLM to filter it as a reader(because you don't care as a reade…
by cladopa · Sep 6, 2026
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A large language model (LLM) is an AI model trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, translate, and analyze text in many contexts. They are the basis for many modern chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek. Read more on Wikipedia