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derektankyesterday at 10:31 PM1 replyview on HN

I wouldn’t say they have an undefined truth value. Their source of truth is their training data. The problem is that human text is not tightly coupled to the capital T truth.


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jcgrilloyesterday at 11:46 PM

Nor is the LLM output tightly coupled to the training data. They'll "eagerly"[1] fill in the blanks wherever it sounds good.

[1] here I don't mean to imply agency, just vigor.