[worrycue]

> find chatgpt a great resource for getting a general understanding to go off of when approaching something outside my domain of experience.

This is my hang up with LLMs … I don’t trust them.

Frankly it seems just as easy if not easier to just google keywords and read sites.

Google vs LLM is like asking random people on the internet (some are brilliant, some don’t know anything, some are nuts, … etc.) vs asking random people on the internet but all of them have a history of suffering from hallucinations and are routine liars with a compulsive need to answer confidently even when they know nothing.

[abenga]

Especially with an Idea of how they work, I find it very hard to trust them too. Doesn't help that the couple of times I asked them about something subtle, GPT gave me code with the same bugs I was trying to fix. I can see how a beginner would find it useful though.

[bregma]

So it's really just a refinement of Wikipedia, but with custom answers to more explicit questions.

[doctormanhatten]

I don't know about you but I trust Wikipedia a lot more than I trust ChatGPT.

[n6h6]

Plus, with Wikipedia, you can clearly see the sources or the lack of them. I tried asking ChatGPT for a source twice. One time, it gave a source. Another time, it gave the "as a language model I can't" spiel.

[__loam]

Wikipedia actually has a system for creating knowledge and verifying it, while ChatGPT was trained to convince humans.

[ModernMech]

> suffering from hallucinations and are routine liars with a compulsive need to answer confidently even when they know nothing.

Sounds like a description of narcissistic personality disorder or schizoaffective. Of course proto ai would have a personality disorder, go figure.

In the future, the job of an ai psychologist will be to certify the personality of ai products. Gotta make sure you’re not shipping a shrink wrapped psychopath.

[__loam]

They're already doing this. That's why Chatgpt is so successful. They sanded off the offensive edges by showing some Nigerians CSAM.