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Yes, so often I see/hear people asking "But how can you trust it?!" I'm asking it a question about social dynamics in the USSR, what's the worst thing that'll
by FergusArgyll 2y ago
Yes, so often I see/hear people asking "But how can you trust it?!"
I'm asking it a question about social dynamics in the USSR, what's the worst thing that'll happen?! I'll get the wrong impression?
What are people using this for? are you building a nuclear reactor where every mistake is catastrophic?
Almost none of my interactions with LLMs "Matter", they are things I'm curious about, if 10 out of 100 things I learnt from it are false, then I learned 90 new things. And these are things which mostly I'd have no way to learn about otherwise (without spending significant money on books/classes etc.)
- saagarjha 2y agoYes, but how do you know which is which?
- cowsaymoo 2y agoThat is also a broader epistemological question one could ask about truth on the internet or even truth in general. You have to interrogate reality
- radlad 2y agoThat's certainly true, but I think it's also true that you have more contextual information about the trustworthiness of what you're reading when you pick up a book, magazine, or load a website. As a simple example, LLMs will happily incorporate "facts" learned from marketing material into it's knowledgebase and then regurgitate it as part of a summary on the topic.
- das_keyboard 2y agoIf you don't care if it's correct or not you can also just make the stuff up. No need to pay for AI to do it for you.
- madmask 2y agoI try hard not to pollute my learning with falsehoods. Like I really hate spending time learning bs, not knowing is way better than knowing something wrong.