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Comment by brazukadev

12 hours ago

Brendas have fucked it up multiple times, by themselves or because their boss demanded

The underlying assumption is that Brenda generally does her job pretty well. Human errors exist but usually peers/managers (or the person who did it) can identify and correct them reliably.

If we have to compare LLM’s against people who are bad at their jobs in order to highlight their utility we’re going the wrong direction.

  • There are a lot of underlying assumptions: Brenda, the woman, is accurate and trustworthy and has mastered an accurate and trustworthy technology; the upper manager, the male, will introduce error by not understanding that the technology he brings to bear on the situation is hallucinatory. The woman is lower in status and pay than the male. The woman is necessary to the functioning of "the economy" and "capitalism," while the man threatens those. There are a lot of unsubtle political undertones on TikTok.