Category: Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
November 27, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Law

Tagged
Featured, Google chatbot, Libel, Robby Starbuck, Slander, Starbuck lawsuit vs Google}

Does It Matter WHY a Chatbot Slanders You?

_{Google’s AI chatbot service blames users’ questions and unfixable software for the bot’s shocking defamation of a man’s character} _{Richard W. Stevens
November 27, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Law}

Chatbots aren’t necessities. Meanwhile, long-esteemed laws and rules of conduct forbade slander and libel because they can seriously harm people. Read More ›

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Jeffrey Funk
Date
November 18, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Economics, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Ed Zitron, Featured, Graphical process units (GPUs), Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI economics}

A Lack of Transparency Threatens AI — and the American Economy

_{Even the Wall Street Journal does not appear to understand the nature of the looming problems} _{Jeffrey Funk
November 18, 2025

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Business and Finance, Economics, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

AI software startups should be required to release audited numbers so that we can at least understand the current state of the AI economy. Read More ›

A child holding a tablet with a chatbot interface on the screen, showing colorful icons and a cheerful robot character.

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Doug Smith
Date
November 16, 2025

Categorized
Addiction, Education, Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion

Tagged
Chatbot addiction, Children and LLMs (chatbots), George Barna, Jay Owen, Raising Spiritual Champions (2023), Unintentional (book)}

Kids and Chatbots: How Dissenting Views Got Me Disinvited

_{As a lifelong software engineer, I am an insider on a topic like this and I know that their programming makes them unsuitable for children} _{Doug Smith
November 16, 2025

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Addiction, Education, Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion}

I also believe that their programmed tendency to lead to addictive relationships makes them unsuitable for adults as well but that’s another topic. Read More ›

The skill to dissect complex data, recognize patterns, and make logical decisions based on relationships and cause-effect.

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Gary Smith
Date
November 14, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Causation vs. correlation, James Somers, Mutual funds and AI, Will Rogers phenomenon}

Illusions: No, Large Language Models Do Not Understand

_{A recent New Yorker article is mistaken about this. For one thing, the LLMs have trouble distinguishing between causation and mere correlation} _{Gary Smith
November 14, 2025

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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

A real-world example of such struggles is the poor performance, in general, of AI-powered mutual funds. Read More ›

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
November 10, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Law

Tagged
AI and defamation, Chatbots and defamation, Featured, Frederick Riehl, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Libel law, Mark Walters, OpenAI and defamation, SAF v. Ferguson, Walters v. OpenAI}

Case Study: How Not to Sue AI for Libel

_{Richard W. Stevens
November 10, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Law}

I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict. Read More ›

A futuristic eco-city with verdant vegetation and a glowing green energy source situated atop a giant computer chip in a detailed urban landscape vision.

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Doug Smith
Date
November 9, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion

Tagged
C.S. Lewis (1898‒1965), Gloo, Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Pat Gelsinger, That Hideous Strength (book 1945), Tool trope, Tower of Babel}

Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots As a Force For Good? Part 2

_{The claims being made for what these bots can do for ministry would lead us into dangerous territory} _{Doug Smith
November 9, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion}

We need to remember what Christian thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Marshall McLuhan have thought and said about technology-driven utopias. Read More ›

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William A. Dembski
Date
November 4, 2025

Categorized
Education, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Ben Carson, Computer chess, Defying Low Expectations (book 2025), Jaime Escalante, Teacher role}

A Non-Transhumanist Vision for AI in Education

_{Bill Dembski describes this new approach as amounting to edification rather than enhancement} _{William A. Dembski
November 4, 2025

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Education, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

AI should be used as a way of honing students’ skills and knowledge, helping them learn more effectively than before. Read More ›

Woman chained to a laptop, symbolizing internet and social media addiction. Generated by AI

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Doug Smith
Date
November 2, 2025

Categorized
Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Mental health, Relationships

Tagged
Gloo, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Pat Gelsinger, Tool trope}

Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots As A Force For Good? Part 1

_{In response to claims from a Christian ministry, as a Christian software developer, I offer some serious cautions} _{Doug Smith
November 2, 2025

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Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Mental health, Relationships}

A technology like generative AI, which deceives us by feeling person-like, harms us in ways that are categorically different from any other. Read More ›

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Gary Smith
Date
October 30, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
ChatGPT-5, Featured, Scaling as concept}

Scaling Up is Not Going to Make Large Language Models Intelligent

_{ChatGPT-5 misunderstood the jab in a simple Will Rogers joke five out of six times} _{Gary Smith
October 30, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Bigger data centers are not going to change the harsh reality that LLMs are prone to generating unreliable blather. Read More ›

Chat GPT Artificial Intelligence copy writing bot by Open AI. Robot for student homework, education.

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Gary Smith
Date
October 28, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Autocomplete, Copilot, DeepSeek, Featured, Gemini 2.5, GPT-5, Sonnet 4.5}

Large Language Models: Inconsistent Because They’re Unintelligent

_{Here’s what happened when I tested popular LLMs on student exercise questions I have been using for over fifty years} _{Gary Smith
October 28, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Claims that an LLM is intelligent don’t square with the fact that it may answer a question one way and, a few seconds later, simply contradict itself. Read More ›

AIdriven chatbots assisting customer service, automated communication, concept

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Common Crawl, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Erdos problems, Gary Marcus, Greg Ip, OpenAI, Sebastien Bubeck, Stack Overflow}

Will Reliance on AI Mean a Vast Drop in New Knowledge Production?

_{Dependence on AI assistants, for example, was found to greatly reduce discussion among peers, where new ideas are offered and evaluated} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Ultimately, the AI knowledge system will be enriched or impoverished by human decisions, not by discovering a superintelligence. Read More ›

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Brendan Dixon
Date
October 22, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), Nate Soares, Tokens in AI}

Fearing the Terminator: Does Current Tech Warrant the Doomsaying?

_{People will worry less if they understand why the text generation programs not only do not think but in fact cannot think} _{Brendan Dixon
October 22, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Bottom line: Text generative AIs do not capture meaning. They capture relationships which approximate meaning well enough to be useful. Read More ›

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Brendan Dixon
Date
October 21, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
AI Accelerationists, AI Alignment Problem (AAP), AI Doomers, Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), Effective Altruism, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), John McCarthy, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Max Tegmark, Nate Soares, Peter Thiel, Rationalist community (Silicon Valley), Sam Altman, Sam Bankman-Fried}

Fearing the Terminator, Missing the Obvious

_{In Part 1 of my review of the new AI Doom book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, we look at how the authors first developed the underlying idea} _{Brendan Dixon
October 21, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

By 2020, authors Yudlowsky and Soares were already Doomers but the rapid success of ChatGPT and similar models heightened their worries. Read More ›

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Jeffrey Funk
Date
October 15, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
AI Slop, ChatGPT 5.0, Dotcom bubble (2000), Irrational Exuberance (2000), OpenAI, Robert Shiller, Sam Altman, Sora 2, Stock market crash (1929), Workslop}

Different Bubbles, Different Methods of Detection: What of AI?

_{Circular financing is one of the signs. Even the media are beginning to catch on} _{Jeffrey Funk
October 15, 2025

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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Circular financing is the last gasp for OpenAI and the cloud services. They need it to maintain the mirage of an economic boom despite big losses and small revenues for AI software. Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
October 8, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Band-Aids and LLMs, Hallucinations in LLMs}

Verify, Then Trust: the Human Fixes That Make LLMs Work

_{Here are some examples of fixes that programmers and other workers have applied over time to large language model (LLM) bloopers} _{Robert J. Marks
October 8, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs)}

I suspect there will never be enough Band-Aids to stop all of the bleeding. So instead of “Trust but verify,” I recommend “Verify, then trust.” Read More ›

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Gary Smith
Date
October 7, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
AI Delusion (book 2018), GPT-5, Intelligence and LLMs, Sonnet 4.5}

Intelligence Demands More than Pressing a Lever to Obtain Water

_{I continue to be astonished by how willing people are to assume that LLMs are intelligent because they give glib, confident answers} _{Gary Smith
October 7, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Human trainers can nudge LLMs to give good answers for specific questions but this training doesn’t prepare them for subtle variations. Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
September 24, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Adam Tauman Kalai et al., Hallucination, OpenAI}

AI Will Keep Hallucinating, says OpenAI

_{AI will always need human guidance.} _{Peter Biles
September 24, 2025

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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

LLMs, while they seem to offer confident answers, cannot reflect on what they’re generating and so can't wisely discern truth from falsehood. Read More ›

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Georg Zoeller, Jeffrey Funk
Date
September 24, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Cloud center economics, Copyright infringement, DeepSeek, Georg Zoeller, Inference costs, OpenAI, OpenAI economics, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Small language models (SLMs)}

Why OpenAI Will Collapse: LLMs Are Not Economical

_{If a model is not refreshed every few months, it quickly turns from a helpful assistant into a debt generation machine with outdated knowledge} _{Georg Zoeller, Jeffrey Funk
September 24, 2025

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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Companies can apply OpenAI’s models to a limited set of data and questions, creating a smaller model that is cheaper to train, update, and run. Read More ›

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News
Date
September 21, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Philosophy, Religion

Tagged
Al-Ghazali, Alex O’Connor, Aristotle (384–322 BC), Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Renner, Jim Caviezel, Kalam Cosmological Argument, Mel Gibson, Peter Kreeft, Scott Ventureyra, Shia LaBeouf, Sylvester Stallone, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Wilhelm Leibniz, William Lane Craig, YoungHoon Kim}

Unexpected: ChatGPT and the Return of God

_{Scott Ventureyra talks about ChatGPT and other large language models (chatbots )AI in the unlikely role of unexpected apologists for Christianity} _{News
September 21, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Philosophy, Religion}

Far from heralding a coming secular triumph over God, the verbal output of chatbots suggests that, generally, people conclude that God must in fact exist. Read More ›

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Gary Smith
Date
September 16, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Brock Intelligence concept, Featured, GPT-5, Sam Altman on AGI, Sam Altman on GPT-5}

A Realistic Direction for Artificial General Intelligence Today

_{Based on GPT5's performance to date, it would make a superb substitute for a mansplainer I know of — call him Brock} _{Gary Smith
September 16, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

The fundamental problem remains; models like GPT-5 are hobbled by their inherent inability to relate the text they input and output to the real world. Read More ›