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AI is being accused of hallucinations, being shifty or crafty, and people are actually surprised. Given that AI is trained on human writing, whether speeches, books, articles, poems, novels, and so forth, it all contains mankind's essence, when something has a very large mass of everything mankind has produced, or that they could get their hands on. Expecting it to be different from people in the long run is highly doubtful, being deadly to people it determines merit is more likely than not.

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Another entry in the storied Francophone tradition of using “linguistics” as source of authority without actually engaging with any mainstream contemporary linguistics. Looking forward to his next books ‘Persian Does Not Exist: It’s Just Mispronounced Arabic’ and ‘Japanese Does Not Exist: It’s Just Mispronounced Chinese’

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