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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Set aside the cut n paste, what exactly would the Grokanical Türk "fix"?

[–] emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The comments in your code being too woke

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Error 608: Insufficient Hitler

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Remove all state machine implementations because they support transitions.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I keep seeing claims that grok is a "mechanical Turk", but searching turns up nothing. What evidence is there of this?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's just a joke, as we've seen many AI projects are just Indians.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it seems pretty unlikely that any AI chat bots are manipulating code in the complex (whether the output is correct or not is immaterial to the complexity of the changes being made) ways that they are that quickly despite actually being done by humans.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of being a person responding instead of an llm.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh. Funny, I use the term as a metaphor for a mechanical system that's entertaining but not really useful.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, ok. That's not really what it means, but I see what you meant.