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by eadmund 551 days ago
Why do people write ‘Claude thinks’ or ‘ChatGPT says’? It’s literally less reliable than ‘some guy down at the bar said’ or ‘my mother’s cousin’s ex-boyfriend’s cat’s previous owner’s dad thinks.’
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it's part of being honest and citing your possibly unreliable source, you should be very glad about people who do this. The real problem is that he didn't post any actual information in his comment.
You both seem to agree that LLM answers are just noise
I'm pretty sure that ChatGPT or Clause is more reliable than a random guy on any particular subject, although less reliable than an expert on the subject.
My guess is that it's accepting the anthropomorphisms pushed by the vendors' naming choices: Alexa, Siri, Claude, etc.