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I’m not sure how much I agree with calling them “foolish people.” A big part of the problem is LLMs act incredibly confident with their answers and if you’re as
by Forgeties79 1y ago
I’m not sure how much I agree with calling them “foolish people.” A big part of the problem is LLMs act incredibly confident with their answers and if you’re asking about something you don’t know a ton about, it’s very difficult sometimes to spot what is incorrect. That’s not being a fool, that’s just not being able to audit everything an LLM might spit back at you. It also doesn’t help that none of these companies are honest about the quality of the results.
We could hand wave this away with “well don’t ask things you don’t already know about,” but these things are basically being pitched as a wholesale replacement for search engines and beyond. I look up things I don’t know about all the time. That’s kind of what we all use search for most days lol.
It’s a little too caveat emptor-adjacent (I hope that makes sense?) for my taste
- marcosdumay 1y agoIt's foolish to take any LLM answer as a true fact. Those people may not be dumb, but there's no doubt they are being fools.
- Forgeties79 1y agoI’d say there’s a difference between “being a fool” and “being fooled.” Just because I fool you doesn’t mean you’re a fool. I don’t know why you’re so eager to put down people like this rather than at least somewhat acknowledge that these companies and tools bear some of the responsibility. I don’t think it’s fair to expect every person who uses an LLM to be able to sniff out everything it gets wrong.
- FloorEgg 1y agoWell that was in reference mostly to the OP Article of the robbers who thought they were invisible and didn't hide from the Cameras. I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted the way you did though. It's not how I meant it.
- Forgeties79 1y agoMy bad then! Thanks for clarifying