And people invent a bunch more coping patterns around the "pretty good at generating naturally sounding language but incabable at literally anything else" black box.
Heard of RAG or Retrieval Augmented Generation? You'd assume that's some fancy mechanism that enables the machine spirit to request more data to do some derp learning loop-de-loops on. Like a inverted interface. Which would be what "retrieval" implies. Sounds good?
WRONG. It's MORE PLAIN TEXT.
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