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WarmWashyesterday at 6:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Just because something is in the training data, doesn't mean it is the root of an LLMs output.

Turn off web search and ask a model what a random redditor said about a random topic in 2015. You will only get hallucinations at best, even though that comment is definitely in the training set.


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lambdayesterday at 6:55 PM

Sure. But it's possible to say: if the document isn't in the training data, it isn't the cause of the output. If it is in the training data, the question gets more complicated.