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by Barrin92
461 days ago
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>The screenshot from the complainant shows this was not in a search context. Of course it does. The question shown in the screenshot is "who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?". That's something someone would type into Google search, it's not "write me a fictional story about a man called Arve Hjalmar Holmen". People use these systems like search tools, they're sold and advertised as information retrieval systems, literally what else would be their point for 90% of people, they're starting to be baked into search products and in return web search is itself included in the AI systems, etc. The top post on HN right now is Claude announcing: "Instead of finding search results yourself, Claude processes and delivers relevant sources in a conversational format." What are you gonna tell me next, the bong on your table is really a vase? |
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>Of course it does
No, of course it doesn't. Because there's a specific blue button for conducting web searches in chatgpt. And other visual indicators which are not present here.
So when I said "the screenshot shows", I was referring to things we could verify in the image, namely, that the question was not asked within a search context.
The top post you refer to, about Claude, is specifically about the search context which wasn't present here.
> The question shown in the screenshot is "who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?". That's something someone would type into Google search, it's not "write me a fictional story about a man called Arve Hjalmar Holmen
Llms are daydream machines.
If you open a new window with an llm and ask it "what is ..." or "who is...", then you'll often get a constant-looking but completely false answer. Because that's how llms work. You can ask it, who or what is something you just made up, and it will trip over itself hallucinating sources that prove it