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tptacek 63 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

Well, a meme is contagious, but it doesn't do the same work a virus can at altering the structure of its host.

Avicebron 63 days ago [–]

I'm actually not too sure about that, viruses have their own mechanisms of infiltrating the host and replicating inside of it. But so do ideas.

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