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  • Relying purely on the knowledge from an LLMs dataset is never a good idea. Frontier models at least append their data by popular demand. Google used to do this back in the day. If a search used to show no results they would note that and start searching their indexed sites for the unresolved search. Maybe a week or so later you could try again and go Google would finally come up with something. Same thing happens with LMMs now. If a question or prompt is popular enough they scrub their indexed sites with more focus and refine the dataset to give more accurate responses. But more accurate is still not 100% reliable. Open weight models usually have Datasets up until 2020, since filtering out AI slop from current day data is a science in itself and smaller labs and institutes don’t have the rescources for that.

    But where LLMs shine is in the fact that they can understand natural language and use tools. For example if I where to research a topic I’d go through hours of web searches, clicking all the links, reading all the abstracts etc. Why not just have an LLM with a websearch access do some agentic work. You give it relevant search terms, and it will go through several pages of the Google results, create summaries and provide the sources directly.

    Add some MCP servers to that so LLMs can directly interact and navigate websites and it will massively speed up research. Instead of reading through several pages of a paper to figure out it is only vaguely related to your topic turns from 10-20 minutes to 1-2 minutes.

    For example Qwen Modells can easily handle 300 page PDF documents without hallucinations.
    And once you’ve got enough material, then you can go back on the sources and properly read through it yourself.

    LLMs can very much be helpful for research, if you use them properly for what they where designed to do, namely data analysis, instead of some know-it-all Guru.



  • LouNeko@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you call yourself a feminist?
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    29 days ago

    It’s really hard to call yourself a feminist when you realize that all major achievements of western feminism aren’t the direct result of activism but rather capitalism. To paraphrase DiCaprio’s Character from Django, activism had their curiosity, the financial incentive had their attention.

    Industries and governments realised that they were essentially not capitalizing on 50% of the population.

    Women in the work force wasn’t a noble grant of freedom, it was an increase in production and profit. If it were truly as noble as it is made out to be, they would’ve given them equal pay from the start.
    Same thing goes for women being able to have their own bank account. Women having their own money means they will spend it, driving the economy. Even the right to vote just provides another angle of attack to influence and radicalize the population. Those are the 3 corner stones, work for capital and pay income tax, spend your money and pay sales tax and vote for whoever the TV tells you to vote. Everything else is just comfort to sweeten the deal. That’s also why 3rd wave feminism has grinded to a halt. The is no capitalist financial incentive to give women even one more inch of freedom than they already have.

    Women haven’t won anything they’ve just gotten of the side lines, right into the corporate meatgrinder.

    And now we’re here, where a two head family can’t afford to have a child because both members working 9-5 can barely support themselves financially, yet alone have the money or time to have a child. And neither corporations nor the government are eager to support them as if giving back even a single cent of profits is a cardinal sin.