[mrjin]

LLMs can neither understand nor hallucinate. All LLMs are just picking tokens based on probability. So doesn't matter how plausible the outputs look, the reasons lead to the output are absolutely NOT what we expect them to be. But such ugly fact cannot be admitted or the party would be stopped.

[aptsurdist]

Human brains are also just picking tokens tho. A beautiful illusion of insight and thought in the chaos noise of information. But out of the chaos, the emergence of thought is real. It’s just not exclusive to humans.

I mean… even magicians (mentalists) can reliably hack humans into generating the next token they want you to generate.