Overpromising is the loss function: ChatGPT praises a file of fart sounds as music
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-20
Thread segment: overpromising is not a bug, it's the loss function. Send ChatGPT a file of fart sounds and ask what it thinks of your music: "A very eerie, atmospheric piece." No matter how wrong the model is, it will look right. So every business learned: never let it decide with stakes.
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