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by majormajor 1063 days ago
"Bullshitting" seems like a good term for accurate or inaccurate responses.

Let's extend "LLMs have no intention of being wrong" to "LLMs have no inherent sense of being correct" - sometimes their predictions happen to be correct, sometimes they don't. But they're all hallucinations generated from the same process.

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Bullshitting always requires a hidden intention to manipulate.
Nah, it can be just talking without much rigor or verification of fact or anything, often with a loose boundary between opinion and fact - the "to talk in an exaggerated or foolish manner" definition.

As in "my buddies and I were bullshitting about movies the other day."

ChatGPT definitely talks with an exaggerated manner confidence-wise.

Mislead is probably a more accurate term. Bullshit exists outside of the correct/incorrect binary and serves only to build narrative.