• muddi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Do you mean the part where they trained a large language model on scripture? That actually is somewhat a good idea, to be able to make the knowledge accessible. It’s where they pretended it is Krishna himself speaking the generated text that is concerning. I am getting dystopian scifi vibes from it, like an anti-Christ incarnation of god into machine to deceive humanity.

      In terms of the content itself, Hindu scripture is very tricky to read. There is content which you are straight up told not to read unless eg. you’ve experienced death and loss, lived life into old age, have a teacher who is a master of exegesis etc. There is too much outdated nonsense mixed into actual philosophizing. One who knows how to separate this is called a paramahamsa, or Supreme Swan – the swan lives on both land and waters, and is said to be able to drink only the milk from a mixture of milk and water. Dumping scripture into Chat GPT for anyone to read nonsense mixed with truth is a very inversion of this tradition, so in that sense it is profane to me