> > Like you can maintain a belief state and generate conditional on this and train to ensure belief state is stable and performant

> ways to start a sentence, which LLMs never use

A huge part of the problem is we've invented a document-generator setup which exploits human cognitive illusions, and even the smartest person can't constantly override the instinctive brain-bits that "sees" fictional entities and infers the intent of a mind. That makes it weirdly-hard to discuss the setup's shortfalls or how to improve it.

To wit: The machine does not possess any kind of confidence about how Rome fell. Or even whether Rome fell. It has "confidence" about which word/token will next in a "typical" document given the document-so-far has text like "How did Rome fall?" It may be straightforward to burn money training the system so that its "typical" story never has a computer-character with confident words about Roman history, but that's just papering over the underlying problem.

TLDR: We can't fix the thinking-habits or beliefs inside the mind of an entity that doesn't actually exist. Changing the story-generator to contain a tee-totaling Dracula dispensing life-advice doesn't mean we "cured the disease of vampirism."