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Yes, I know how it works in general.
The point remains that, someone else prompting AI to say "write a fan letter for my daughter" has close to zero chance to represent the daughter who is not even in the conversation.
Even in general terms, if I ask AI to write a letter for me, it will do so based 99.999999999999999% on whatever it was trained on, NOT me. I can then push more and more prompts to "personalize" it, but at that point you are basically dictating the letter and just letting AI do grammar and spelling
Again, you completely made up that number.
I think you should look up statistical probability tests for the means of normal distributions, at least if you want a stronger argument.
Of course I made it up... the point is that AI trains on LOADS of data and the chances that this data truly represents your own feelings towards a celebrity are slim...
I despise the Kardashians yet if I ask AI to write them a fan letter, it would give me something akin to whatever the people who like them may say. AI has no concept of what or how I like anything, it cannot since it is not me and has no way to even understand what it is saying
Yes, because more people with positive things to say about stuff like money and fame influenced the inputs.
Precisely... other people, not me
So how can you say anything written by AI represents YOU?
Dunno, but it's a good and valid question. My name is Theo Mulraney and I like to question these things in discussion spaces online, which I think are built up from fractals.