The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

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btw i strongly suspect that there’s a way to tell native language of poster by style of writing and specific kinds of grammar mistakes

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it is an often-viable heuristic, yeah

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