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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Skeptical geneticist: "pfft, it's just frog DNA. And they deliberately let them eat people for the marketing."

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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open)
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...you're describing the plot of Jurassic World. Researchers make a hybrid fake dinosaur deliberately dangerous so that guests will find it more exciting. Behind the scenes, it's intended to be hard to control so that its escape can be be used as marketing to sell dinosaurs to the military.

foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open)
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Literally, there's a scene in Jurassic World where they talk about how proud they are that they made this dinosaur really scary because a normal dinosaur wouldn't get enough attention. And then later on the bad guy gives a monologue about releasing the raptors as a field test.