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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim.
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord and Fredy Perlman
This all happens not because LLMs are smart, in the sense of being able to compare what they say with the world, but simply because they are good at making new sentences that sound old sentences, the essence of autocomplete.
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It was readers, particularly readers of sentimental novels, and the new emotionally driven picture of humanity they made popular, who expressed their dissatisfaction with the old regimes in France and Germany, and, harnessing the power of the press, swept them away.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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