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1. Your chatbot doesn't have its own internet scale search index. 2. You're being given information that may or may not be coming in part from junk sites. All
by add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
1. Your chatbot doesn't have its own internet scale search index.
2. You're being given information that may or may not be coming in part from junk sites. All you've done is give up the agency to look at sources and decide for yourself which ones are legitimate.
- n1xis10t 1y agoAs for point one, is that true? I thought ChatGPT and Perplexity had their own indexes.
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- aunty_helen 1y agoI’m quite happy trading off the agency of wading through trash to an LLM. In fact, I would say that’s something they’re pretty good at.
- what 1y agoIt’s just regurgitating the same trash to you though.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago> look at sources and decide ... which ones are legitimate > I would say that’s something they’re pretty good at. Lol. Lmao, even. Seriously, LLMs are famously terrible at this. It's the entire problem behind prompt injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection They're really good at... ingesting the trash. Yeah, that's pretty much their whole purpose. But understanding it as trash? Not even close. LLMs don't have taste. As another commenter wrote, it's just regurgitating it back.
- n1xis10t 1y agoI like the way this paper puts it: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-097...
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoGotta admit, I agree with the title (still reading it). https://www.wordnik.com/words/bullshit https://www.wordnik.com/words/bullshit The one I care about (near the bottom of the page); really, the only meaningful use IMO, except it can also be a noun: > verb speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths It's "without regard for facts or truth".
- n1xis10t 1y agoYup, that’s just about what the paper was getting at