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Comment by hananova

7 days ago

Ad-hominem (literally: "to the person") requires a person on the other side of the argument. This wasn't made or written by a person, thus ad-hominem does not apply.

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samrus  7 days ago

Thats a bit pedantic. Youre still arguing against an entity rather than addressing the argument.

If you prompted an LLM to make a PSA that people should brush their teeth, is it a fair to argue that brushing your teeth is bad because an LLM made the argument?

  • egberts1  7 days ago

    Let's call it "Ad machinam".

    A literal form of "to the machine”: none of the rights that a person has.

    Example usage:

    “That’s not a rebuttal; it’s an argumentum ad machinam -- you’re rejecting it just because AI wrote it.”

    • normalaccess  7 days ago

      And really when you think about it, all AI is is just the a statical recombination of (almost) everything that (almost) everyone has written.

      So it's a kind of mechanical recombination of ideas.

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