alt Hacker News> I had to read this over a few times to believe that I was seeing it. If it didn’t include the word “literally” I’d assume some poetic license on the part of whoever, or whatever, wrote this.
Unfortunately, the meaning of the word “literally” has morphed into almost the opposite of “literally”. Most people just use it as an intensifier devoid of any true meaning. Makes sense that an LLM that doesn’t have any sense of truth would just stuff that in there.
> Makes sense that an LLM that doesn’t have any sense of truth would just stuff that in there
As it turns out, that phrase was most likely added in a human review-edit. Along with the typo.
This is not an argument against LLMs lacking a sense of truth -- just that humans are pretty incompetent as well.