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by samuellevy 1084 days ago
Nah, my issue with both terms is that they imply that when the answer is "correct" that's because the LLM "knows" the correct answer, and when it's wrong it's just a brain fart.

It doesn't matter if the output is correct or not, the process for producing it is identical, and the model has the exact same amount of knowledge about what it's saying... which is to say "none".

This isn't a case of "it's intelligent, but it gets muddled up sometimes". It's more of the case that it's _always_ muddled up, but it's accidentally correct a lot of the time.

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>It doesn't matter if the output is correct or not, the process for producing it is identical

I don't see how this differs from a human earnestly holding a mistaken belief.