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by sroussey 812 days ago
Yes, but…

When GPT4 gets it wrong… all the other LLMs do as well. The error gets reinforced when you ask a quorum of LLMs a question and a majority can trace the same wrong answer back to GPT4.

And you thought getting something out of googles index was hard.

Try removing it from the weights of a bunch of LLMs!

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Sure, doing surgery on the weights is not feasible, but doing surgery on the training data is possible (and is done for certain benchmarks).

That's where it gets interesting. If you tell the LLM what the bad data is, it could examine its own training set and fix the mistakes. Get enough LLMs with diverse enough training sets, and they will correct each other.

If models are stochastic parrots, you might expect training data to devolve into corruption via a negative feedback loop, but the opposite might happen if models are actually intelligent.