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by bigfishrunning 43 days ago
I don't know about that. When you're prompting some LLM, the response you get is a statistically likely valid response to the prompt. Whether it contains any truth or facts or information at all is besides the point; the LLM has done its job of predicting something that is statistically likely to be the answer.

The fact that people assign any weight to that information is the mistake.

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> Whether it contains any truth or facts or information at all is besides the point

The definition of bullshit in the original article was precisely this: no care given to whether there is truth in what is said.