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LLMs do not represent the distribution of human beings, so querying them a billion times will not by itself produce a model of humanity.

swyx · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026

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“LLMs do not model the distribution of humans spamming it out a billion times is not going to help you model humanity.”
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0.80importance to the conversation
0.98confidence the claim was read correctly
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