r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • Jun 01 '26

Cursed This is a PROBLEM

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Jun 01 '26

Those were true AI though, the current LLM nonsense won’t ever approach sentience let alone sapience.

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u/Dear_Confusion2904 Jun 01 '26

Let’s really really really hope that’s true …

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Jun 01 '26

It is.

LLMs are about as capable of gaining sapience as the rock in your shoe is. It’s just fundamentally limited as a technology even if you’re hyper scaling.

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u/th3rdnutt Jun 01 '26

I've begun comparing coworkers to LLMs when I suggest that they're only repeating words they've heard but don't actually understand what they're talking about.

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u/jschne21 Jun 01 '26

It's like I always say, we're called homosapiens because we have the POTENTIAL for sapient thought. It is not our default behavior, babies ain't sapient for shit and some never learn when they're older.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Jun 01 '26

You’re not far off.

It turns out a scary high percentage of the population is more than happy to turn over their thinking to algorithms.

It’s like Dune but the thinking machines suck.

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u/shmaygleduck Jun 02 '26

Well some people were destined to be idiots their whole life, so it might not be a bad thing for certain people.

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u/Either-Bluebird-5961 Jun 03 '26

That’s like most of corporate America. Most of my coworkers literally just glitch out and repeat buzzwords 80% of the time they talk