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Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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Concepts such as autocomplete, autocomplete on steroids (LLMs), and basic statistical methods (all of the most common characters first, so all of the letter E for a good long while) fall laughably short of actual human conversation.
I failed to understand the connection to LLMs. Thanks!
It doesn't have anything to do with LLMs. Not everything is "AI bad!".