> LLMs will happily hallucinate. LLMs will happily tell you total lies with complete confidence. Perhaps we should avoid anthropomorphizing them too much. LLMs

> LLMs will happily hallucinate. LLMs will happily tell you total lies with complete confidence. Perhaps we should avoid anthropomorphizing them too much. LLMs don't inhabit a "real world" where they can experiment and learn. Their training data is their universe, and it's likely filled with conflicting, peculiar, and untestable information. Yes, the output is sometimes "a lie" if we apply it to our world, but in "their world" stuff is might be just strangely different. And it's not like the real world has only "hard simple truths" - quantum mechanics comes to mind about how strange stuff can be.