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ipaddrlast Saturday at 3:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

LLM give false information often. The ability for you to catch incorrect facts is limited by your knowledge and ability and desire to do independent research.

LLMs are accurate with everything you don't know but are factually incorrect with things you are an expert in is a common comment for a reason.


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pgwhalenlast Saturday at 3:51 PM

As I used LLMs more and more for fact type queries, my realization is that while they give false information sometimes, individual humans also give false information sometimes, even purported subject matter experts. It just turns out that you don’t actually need perfectly true information most of the time to get through life.

simianwordslast Saturday at 3:33 PM

No they don’t give false information often.

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