@inthehands fair point, this is likely a case of AI slop (and questionable marketing)!

But "obviously a terrible alternative"? As far as I'm concerned it sounds like a pretty reasonable thing to try.

And, It might even work quite well, but only for an LLM trained without RLHF, instruction tuning, and big tech putting their hands on it. The bias there would be from the data distribution (same problem they have in the old method, "who picks up the phone?")