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by SAI_Peregrinus 339 days ago
It's an LLM. It's as in touch with reality as teenage intern on magic mushrooms, by design. LLMs have no senses, no contact with the outside world except their chat box context window & occasional training of a new model. They hallucinate because that's all they can do, just like if you locked a human in a sensory deprivation tank with nothing but a chat box they'd hallucinate. All output of an LLM is a hallucination, some just happens to align with reality.

I want people to not pay these asshats $200/month, not to accept it blindly. I want people to understand that if support isn't advertised (no support link on the home page) that means there's no support. I want people to not trust LLMs blindly. I want people to not fall for scams. I don't expect to get what I want.