A defining characteristic of ‘fake news’ is that it frequently presents false information in a context of factually correct information, with the untrue data gaining perceived authority by a kind of literary osmosis – a worrying demonstration of the power of half-truths.
DD Right-wing Politicians do this all the time. Boris Johnson is a great example. Sadly, nothing what he says is true.
Sophisticated generative natural language processing (NLP) processing models such as GPT-3 also have a tendency to ‘hallucinate’ this kind of deceptive data. In part, this is because language models require the capability to rephrase and summarize long and often labyrinthine tracts of text, without any architectural constraint that’s able to define, encapsulate and ‘seal’ events and facts so that they are protected from the process of semantic reconstruction.
Therefore the facts are not sacred to an NLP model; they can easily end up treated in the context of ‘semantic Lego bricks’, particularly where complex grammar or arcane source material makes it difficult to separate discrete entities from language structure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
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"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
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When did the not-rhotic accent stop being used on the BBC?
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Language wars: the 19 greatest linguistic spats of all time
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... stic-spats
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... stic-spats
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Hooray Harry dumped
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The funeral of Berlusconi, a former cruise-ship singer who rose to become Italy’s longest-serving postwar premier and died aged 86, will take place on Wednesday at the cathedral of Milan, at the heart of the city that saw his rise to fame as a construction, soccer and then media mogul.
Written by a French-minded if you ask me.
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Wow, 1 sentence, 4 kommas. It's a bit flaky, indeed.The funeral of Berlusconi, a former cruise-ship singer who rose to become Italy’s longest-serving postwar premier and died aged 86, will take place on Wednesday at the cathedral of Milan, at the heart of the city that saw his rise to fame as a construction, soccer and then media mogul.
Written by a French-minded if you ask me.
It's the Duomo, a very ugly building.
I kind of expected the funeral in Pavia cathedral with the statue of another great leader, Marcus Aurelius.
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at the cathedral of Milan, at the heart of the city ..
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No dogs allowed on the mountain.
By order.
Louth Council Country Code Article 4.
Sheep farmers are exempt.
By order.
Louth Council Country Code Article 4.
Sheep farmers are exempt.
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"Grammarly, deepL, pick your GPT, are helpful, but, they can’t catch the nuances of English - it’s too chaotic a language."
5 commas and the dreaded hyphen.
OK?
5 commas and the dreaded hyphen.
OK?
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"Grammarly, deepL, pick your GPT, are helpful, but, they can’t catch the nuances of English - it’s too chaotic a language."
5 commas and the dreaded hyphen.
OK?
Too many commas, even seen from France.
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