> LLMs are not incapable of telling the truth. They tell the truth all the time. They're incapable of knowing if what they're telling is the truth. We're well

> LLMs are not incapable of telling the truth. They tell the truth all the time. They're incapable of knowing if what they're telling is the truth. We're well into philosophy at this point, but I'd argue that telling the truth requires knowledge of the truth. Individual statements could be true, false, or neither. But I'd say neither an LLM nor a monkeys-with-typewriters generator could be said to tell the truth, because what they're doing is both orthogonal to truth and lacking in agency. If we stretch to thinking of it as having agency, then I think the correct term would be "bullshitting", aka producing speech "without regard for truth". [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit