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ghostly_syesterday at 2:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

> The only only pure fuck-up I'd call out is switching from third to first person when referring to OpenAI in the same sentence (No. 4).

"We" in this sentence refers to both parties; "they" refers to OpenAI. Not a grammatical error.


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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 2:44 PM

> "We" in this sentence refers to both parties

Fair enough.

> "they" refers to OpenAI. Not a grammatical error

I'd say it is. It's a press release from OpenAI. The rest of the release uses the third-person "they" to refer to Microsoft. The LLM traded accuracy for a bad joke, which is someting I associate with LinkedIn speak.

The fundmaental problem might be the OpenAI press release is vague. (And changing. It's changed at least once since I first commented.)

auscompgeekyesterday at 2:49 PM

In isolation sure. But in context with the other points it makes it look like "they" refers to Microsoft in all the dot points.