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StilesCrisistoday at 12:38 PM1 replyview on HN

"Makes unlikely" is very different from "prevents."

If there's one counterexample, it's not really deterministic.


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rkozik1989today at 1:16 PM

Exactly, consider the scenario where laws are at play and violating them could cost companies thousands. Recently my father received a 'request for address' letter addressed to me at his nursing home, the building has always been a nursing home, and he's also in his mid-70s. That's very obviously a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Imagine the implication of this if the law firm in questions used an AI-assisted data enriching product to find this information. That SaaS company is not only liable to that one law firm but every law firm who uses their software. Its potentially a federal class action lawsuit.

My point is, deterministic logic matters in certain circumstances 100% of the time. Forcing the LLM to make something unlikely is not good enough because a series of mistakes could very quickly bankrupt the company.

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