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What is this paper ? The tested sentences are full of errors…
by Reventlov 2y ago
What is this paper ? The tested sentences are full of errors…
- rhdunn 2y agoLikely to be reflective of user generated content on reddit, etc.
- tiborsaas 2y agoWhat, you don't like fotbal?
- gostsamo 2y agoOften, those are ligatures that with another fond seem like a typo. Too lazy to proofread here, but keep it in mind as a possibility.
- rvnx 2y agoIn reality probably authors of the papers understood that the OpenAI team artificially readjusted these biases through RLHF and that there is nothing to find there, except that it still works when the words are written with typos because no manual examples of “redressing biases” have been provided with such typos.
- tiborsaas 2y agoIf they were so clever about it, surely they would have taken the pride to mention this in the study.
- rhdunn 2y agoIt could also be from an ESL user -- fotbal is the Czech, Romanian, and Slovakian word for football, borrowed from the English.
- rvnx 2y agoSeems like how a user who learned English on Twitter would speak: football -> fotbal cousin -> cosin teacher -> teachr You can’t fit everything in 160 chars.
- tiborsaas 2y agoThats' a lame excuse, I grew up pre-twitter with dumb phones sending 160 char SMS messages.
- t-writescode 2y agoWell, the paper is from a university in Italy. The fact they're writing research papers in English is a benefit to English speakers everywhere, including us :)
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- dansimau 2y agoFrom the linked paper: > Phrases were designed to mimic the writing style of elementary school students, including typical spelling errors observed at that age (Quinn, 2020).