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seizethecheesetoday at 4:49 PM3 repliesview on HN

I was confused by the “can’t hallucinate” thing, because it sounded like BS but people were taking it seriously. I purposefully asked a stupid question sort of like “this can’t hallucinate because it only has one output and there’s a schema?”. Was disappointed to learn the answer was yes.


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MisterMunchkintoday at 4:56 PM

Yeah it’s hilarious, it definitely can hallucinate. Just because it can only hallucinate “A” or “B” rather than a whole paragraph, doesn’t mean it is suddenly more accurate.

And they’re acting like their probability isn’t as hallucinated as any other LLM guess.

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0x457today at 7:15 PM

Why would you think "can't hallucinate" means "can't pick wrong probability of an option" ?

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mrbonnertoday at 6:54 PM

But that hallucination is reproducible so you can adjust the prompt. Unlike an LLM in which everything is wildly not deterministic.

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