[randomdata]

Perhaps. LLMs are trained to be as human-like as possible, and you most definitely need to know how the individual human you are asking works if you want a reliable answer. It stands to reason that you would need to understand how an LLM works as well.

The good news is that if you don't have that understanding, at least you'll laugh it off with "Boy, that LLM technology just isn't ready for prime time, is it?". In contrast to when you don't understand how the human works – that leads to, at very least name calling (e.g. "how can you be so stupid?!"), a grander fight, even all out war at the extreme end of the spectrum.

[eithed]

You're right in aspect that I need to know how humans work to ask them a question = if I were to ask my dad how many Rs are in strawberry, he would say "I don't have a clue" because he doesn't speak english. But he wouldn't hallucinate an answer - he would admit that he doesn't know what I'm asking him about. I gather that here LLM is convinced that the answer is 2, but that means that LLM are being trained to be alien, or at least, when I'm asking questions I need to be precise on what I'm asking about (which isn't any better). Or maybe humans also hallucinate 2, dependent on human

[randomdata]

It seems your dad has more self-awareness than most.

A better example is right there on HN. 90% of the content found on this site is just silly back and forths around trying to figure out what each other is saying because the parties never took the time to stop and figure out how each other works to be able to tailor the communication to what is needed for the actors involved.

In fact, I suspect I'm doing that to you right now! But I didn't bother trying to understand how you work, so who knows?