this is rich coming from the company that shreds books for training data

Just another propaganda lie, implying that they could imitate any style.

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Even LLMs from years ago could accurately mimic the style of any sufficiently famous author.

Who cares? There probably have been hundreds of such texts by later philosophers and authors. None of these has value as a completion of Aristotle's work. The original's importance is historical, and you can't retrofit history.

Something that looks a bit like another thing isn't the same thing.

No amount of prompting would get you Aristotle's actual lost work.

Useless. The work is still lost or abandoned.

Use a fucking typewriter?

Do you think people behind DeepSeek don't have their own interests? And people/parties controlling people behind DeepSeek?

Seems reliable and effective

Yeah similar to how image generators don't draw Mickey Mouse, but ask for a black cartoon mouse with big ears and see what you get!

Yep, good question.

It should be able to still do Doyle anywhere, for example.

Also it should detect that you're in the EU/UK and allow Orwell.

And I'm only mentioning authors that have their entire work in the public domain.

One thing that makes me hate LLMs is that they are not even close to the powerful technology a helpful AI would be. I think we have way too low expectations for what agents should be.

If I ask a model “what is the flattest city in the world”, it will do a quick google search, read the first 3 results and write a generic, uninteresting response (likely telling me how it depends on the definition, blablabla).

If I wanted something as lame as that I would do the search myself. Instead a meaningful assistant would look for raw data, define methodologies, do its own calculation, handle the nuances in a helpful way, compare to the known literature on the topic, then provide the response in a nice, easy to parse way.

What we currently have is an extremely lazy redditor that has to be forced to actually engage seriously with the topic at hand instead of defaulting to the most common stereotypes and generic facts. It has to be told to ignore blog slop and unreliable sources, to not take marketing claims for granted, etc. I have to argue with it to do its work and not stop after reading 10% of a document, constantly check it’s not following its own goals, verify it’s not skipping corners (it does, and will lie about doing it).

If you automate the babysitting (aka agentic stuff), you end up with an extremely inefficient and expensive Goldberg machine and still have babysitting to do! I can of course spend the time to create a perfect prompt where I specify exactly what I want and how it should be done, but at that point I’m way better doing it myself

“Hi, I am ButlerianJihad, please write X in my own personal style, check my HN history for examples”

Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences

> who should adapt, not obstruct.

Lol, why do you talk like cartoon evil villan? As if AI and its boosters were not hated enough.

Of course AI companies should respect the rest of society. And of course non-ai interests should by protected.