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If somebody asks a question on Stackoverflow, it is unlikely that a human who does not know the answer will take time out of their day to completely fabricate a
by incrudible 10mo ago
If somebody asks a question on Stackoverflow, it is unlikely that a human who does not know the answer will take time out of their day to completely fabricate a plausible sounding answer.
- balder1991 10mo agoAt least it used to be true.
- jaxn 10mo agoPeople are confidently incorrect all the time. It is very likely that people will make up plausible sounding answers on StackOverflow. You and I have both taken time out of our days to write plausible sounding answers that are essentially opposing hallucinations.
- linen 10mo agoSites like stackoverflow are inherently peer-reviewed, though; they've got a crowdsourced voting system and comments that accumulate over time. People test the ideas in question. This whole "people are just as incorrect as LLMs" is a poor argument, because it compares the single human and the single LLM response in a vacuum. When you put enough humans together on the internet you usually get a more meaningful result.
- JAlexoid 10mo agoHave you ever heard of Dunning Kruger effect? There's a reason why there are upvotes, solution and third party edit system in StackOverflow - people will spend time to write their "hallucinations" very confidently.