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[โ€“] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I was going to make a joke about how this naming convention implies we should start calling LLMs vibrators since people keep using them for ego/mental masturbation. But it didn't seem right, since vibrators actually serve a useful function shrug-outta-hecks

[โ€“] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

The same actually, both seem to be mostly used for wanking.

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