Current watch list:
- Mashle: Muscles and Magic - Absolutely phenomenal. It’s hilarious from start to finish.
- Hell’s Paradise - Really good. Bit dark, but enjoyable.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - “and then it got worse” the anime. Really good, but man does it start getting depressing after a while when the punches to the gut just will not stop coming, but this is a Gundam, so that should be expected.
- Dead Mount Death Play - The anime with the weird name that’s surprisingly good. Not what I was expecting at all, particularly given the description, but it’s been really good and every episode I’ve enjoyed more than the previous one.
- I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too - The anime with a name that’s way too long. Fun watch, basic power fantasy type thing. Not amazing, but just a solid enjoyable watch.
- The Aristocrat’s Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far - Yet another Isekai power fantasy thing. It’s fun but ultimately just fluff. Watch it, enjoy it, continue on with your day.
- Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear: Punch - Basically same as the last one, but this time seasoned with some moe and mild yuri themes (also this is season two, season one was the same name but without the Punch sub-title).
- Edens Zero - Have you seen Fairy Tail? Do you want to see it again? Because this is by the same guy and he even recycled most of the characters. Seriously this is just “Fairy Tale in SPAAAAAACE!”. If you liked Fairy Tale, you’ll probably like this, if not I’d steer clear.
- Summoned to Another World for a Second Time - And we’re back to fluff power fantasy isekai. It’s fun, but it’s like the junk food of the anime world.
- In Another World With My Smartphone - Just like the last one, but even more junk food-ish. Seriously, this is not very well written and if you’re looking for something intelligent best go look elsewhere.
There were a couple other series I started to watch, but I couldn’t bring myself to continue watching:
- KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World - So much ecchi content, and one of the main characters is a loli that strips at the drop of a hat. Oh, and it’s an isekai of course.
- The Legendary Hero is Dead - Once again, this is just a vehicle for ecchi content. Making it even worse the MC is complete scum with absolutely no redeeming qualities, at least not in the first few episodes I actually managed to sit through.
That’s the crux of the problem, a LLM has no understanding of what it’s saying, it doesn’t know how to use references. All it knows is that in similar contexts this set of words tended to follow this other set of words. It doesn’t actually understand anything. It’s capable of producing output that looks correct to a casual glance but is often wildly wrong.
Just look at that legal filing that idiot lawyer used ChatGPT to generate. It produced fake references that were trivial for a real lawyer to spot because they used the wrong citation format for the district they were supposedly from. They looked like real citations because they were based on how real citations looked but it didn’t understand that citations have different styles depending on the court district and that the claimed district and citation style must match.
LLMs are very good at producing convincing sounding bullshit, particular for the uninformed.
I saw a post here the other day where someone was saying they thought LLMs were great for learning because beginners often don’t know where to start. There might be some merit to that if it’s used carefully, but by the same token that’s incredibly dangerous because it often takes very deep knowledge to see the various ways the LLMs output is wrong.