It sounds like some idiot working at Meta used an LLM to produce that internal document. Those “acceptable things to say” quotes are just stupid. They have to be quotes an LLM added to the document, unnoticed. There’s no way a human wrote them, or even copied and pasted into the doc, and said, “These are acceptable.” I refuse to believe that.

I’m sorry, but it doesn’t sound like you read the article.

Some salient quotes:

Companies cited a variety of ways they gain access to student digital activity, including browser plug-ins, API integrations and device software.

Many companies collect and flag sensitive data, including students’ private messages and search histories.

So, they work with shady spyware companies to collect private student data, retain it, and then try to sell it to schools.

I, for one, am fucking shocked!

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I was tasked once with writing a front-end for an API that didn’t exist yet, but I had a model. I could have written a loop that generated “Person Man 1”, “Person Man 2”, etc. with all of the associated fields, but instead I gave the LLM my class definition and it spat out 50 people with unique names, phone numbers, emails, and everything. It made it easy to test the paging and especially the filtering. It also took like 30 seconds to ask for and receive.

I originally asked it to make punny names based on celebrities, and it said “I can’t do that.” ☹️

fill lines of data based on other data structures: it can transform text quicker than you can write regex and i’ve never had it fail at thisI’m

not sure what you mean by that.

Not speaking for them, but I use LLMs for this. You have lines of repetitive code, and you realize you need to swap the order of things within each line. You could brute force it, or you could write a regex search/replace. Instead, you tell the LLM to do it and it saves a lot of time.

Swapping the order of things is just one example. It can change capitalization, insert values, or generate endless amounts of mock data.

I don’t see how it could be more effecient to have [a junior developer write] something that you then have to review and make sure actually works over just writing the code yourself…

You know Kurzgesagt isn’t a person, right? It’s German for “in a nutshell”. (Litetally “shortly said”.) It’s a production studio.