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by thrownthatway 54 days ago
> minor changes in a question can get conflicting answers from even the best models

Humans are notorious for doing this.

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Not unless you’re referring to significant mental illness, no. Individual people may vary if, say, I ask for health advice but if I ask the same doctor they’re not going to flip the answer based on whether I use medical or wellness influencer phrasings — and that allows them to build a reputation which other people can rely on.

This especially applies to mistakes: the junior developer who drops a database by mistake is unlikely to ever do that again, whereas the same AI companies models keep doing that to a small but non-zero number of customers because they don’t have that higher level learning process or anything like fear of consequences.