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Most people who don't know the answer will just tell you that they don't know, though.

• JoshTriplett 4y ago
  And ideally, people who don't know the answer firsthand but know a secondhand answer would tell you their source. "I haven't heard myself, but X and Y and many others say that Z is one of the best players in the world." In general, effort by an LLM to cite sources would be nice.
  • EGreg 4y ago
    And even if you heard it, you'll have no way of knowing. Unless you're a Competent Judge and even then: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771121/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771121/
  • int_19h 4y ago
    Without prompt overriding, ChatGPT often says things like "according to my training data" etc.
• the_gipsy 4y ago
  But anyone who has read that fact on wikipedia will tell it .
• jaggederest 4y ago
  Vanishingly uncommon to actually hear "I don't know" as the answer to a casual inquiry, unless it's on an obviously specialist topic. The Dunning-Kruger effect happens with a lot of things that are day-to-day.
  • dragonwriter 4y ago
    > The Dunning-Kruger effect happens with a lot of things that are day-to-day. Ironically, the Dunning-Kruger effect (in which perceived relative skills tends to track with actual relative skill but is, on average, shifted somewhat towards about the 70th percentile from its actual value, for people on either side of that) is a frequent subject of what people misdescribe as the “Dunning-Kruger effect”, where people act extremely knowledgeable about a subject with very little knowledge of it.