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 It's hilarious how hard they are jumping the gun on this. The technology is nowhere near adequate to be anything like a copy. The privacy implications are pretty incredible too.

The LLMs are actually a variant of data compression, similar to how MP3 and MP4 compress complex waveforms, these do a similar thing to language. They are not effective at either, however. No clone of anyone is ever going to be able to copy the creativity, it's just endless repetition.

Also, if you can't tell when text is AI generated, you probably would be a suitable candidate for being cloned, because your content will not be creative.