Google is the latest California-based tech giant to make a major donation to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, which will take place on Jan. 20, or Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

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    10 hours ago

    Seems this is a common thing. Found this and also Claude (the LLM) tells me it goes very far back and kinda got very big around Reagan’s time. Allegedly Obama had some restrictions on his first term, but these were lifted on second term, but I haven’t bothered to verify that.

    However, the answer is yes. Just that it seems to be nothing new.

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        8 hours ago

        Hey, at least some people are citing their sources.

        How often do people say stuff like that without telling others where it came from? It’s easy enough to accept things as true if they sound reasonable. Having a source means that grain of salt is already there.

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          Giving a LLM as a source is like giving your hair dresser as a source for things not related to hair dressing, because LLMs are trained on random people’s online posts mixed in with actual knowledgeable people’s posts.

          Saying they got info from a LLM makes them less credible that someone who might actually know what they are talking about. They basically admit they don’t have the ability to think for themselves and are just trying to promote using LLMs.