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[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I mean what you're proposing was the initial push of gpt3. All the experts said, these GPTs will only hallucinate more with more resources and they'll never do anything more than repeat their training data as a word salad posing as novelty. And on a very macro scale, they were correct.

The scaling problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361

The scaling hype
https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis

Ultimately, hype won out.