alt Hacker NewsUgh you just fancy auto-completed a sequence of electrical signals from your eyes into a sequence of nerve impulses in your fingers to say that, and how do I know you're not hallucinating, last week a different human told me an incorrect fact and they were totally convinced they were right!
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deadbabe • last Thursday at 7:13 PM
The human believes it was right.
The LLM doesn’t believe it was right or wrong. It doesn’t believe anything anymore than a mathematical function believes 2+2=4.
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Humans base their "facts" on consensus-driven education and knowledge. Anything that falls into a range of "I think this is true" or "I read this somewhere" or "I have a hunch" is more acceptable for a human than an LLM. Also humans are more often to encapsulate their uncertain answers with phrasing. LLMs can't do this, they don't have a way to track answers that are possibly incorrect.