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This comment just made me consider LLMs as similar to the essayists you mentioned - they read the "right" answer somewhere on the internet/during training and t
by I_Am_Nous 3y ago
This comment just made me consider LLMs as similar to the essayists you mentioned - they read the "right" answer somewhere on the internet/during training and then can regurgitate it in a way that makes sense without consideration of how true it is in practice.
- yen223 3y agoHumans were hallucinating responses given a prompt long before LLMs were a thing. Just look at any comment thread.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoCertainly! It's generally considered a negative trait for LLMs to hallucinate but to say a writer is doing the same thing is kind of just implying they are a bad writer with a surface level understanding of their topic. I believe it's the confident delivery that's the issue, or the improper logical synthesis of ideas because they "seem" to be related.
- CM30 3y agoNot even the right answer much of the time, just information that sorta matches the right patterns as requested by the user. But LLMs say things in such an authorative, intelligent seeming way that it's indeed easy to forget they have no idea what they're actually saying or how accurate it is at all...