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by SirMaster 557 days ago
What? You are telling me that when you roll a 6 sided dice you are not expecting any of the 1-6 as a result?

If a 6-sided dice produced a 7 that would be a bug.

When you rolled a dice, I would argue that you knew you wanted a random number from 1-6, not that you wanted a specific number or not a specific number. If you wanted that you wouldn't have used a dice.

When I ask an LLM to write code for me and it references a completely made up library that doesn't exist and has never existed, is this really analogous to your dice example?

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>You are telling me that when you roll a 6 sided dice you are not expecting any of the 1-6 as a result?

The statement I replied to wasn't any non-expected result is a bug, it was non-desired output is a bug (hence the joke about not desiring an expected output). LLMs producing "funny" (hallucination) outputs are expected but only sometimes not desired, therefore not a bug in my opinion.

How do you use an LLM in story telling if it isn't allowed to produce fictious outputs?

IMO it is because you just asked a bunch of dice to write code for you.