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zarzavattoday at 3:41 AM2 repliesview on HN

LLMs are not optimized only for truth they are optimized for a more complicated objective that includes e.g. humans liking their output. It is a universal truth that to get humans to like you, you have to lie to them.


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elendilmtoday at 6:17 AM

<It is a universal truth that to get humans to like you, you have to lie to them.>

You don't represent all of us buddy. Some of us love truth above all else.

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NitpickLawyertoday at 4:45 AM

> It is a universal truth that to get humans to like you, you have to lie to them.

Thus said HAL9000