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by NovemberWhiskey 717 days ago
LLMs don't return objective information. Never have. You're getting a statistically-probable token stream based on the training corpus and the prompt.
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I don't think that follows. If ChatGPT tells me that two masses attract one another via gravity, that's objective information regardless of whether it uses a statistical process to produce it out of training data or contacts an oracle to directly query the divine will of the gods. LLMs don't always return objective information, but they typically do.