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by skrebbel 17 days ago
Tiny sidenote but we really gotta learn to stop asking AIs why it made a decision. The AI doesn’t know why it does things, but it can always confidently guess a reason from prior context and might sound kinda sorta right.

It’s never useful information. It’s like asking a class of highschoolers to explain in a report why they made certain choices in an art project. The real reason is “i liked it like that” but if you ask them to produce 10 pages of fluff justifying the choices based on nothing they’ll be happy to. (except of course for that one uber diligent kid who actually thought about concepts etc before starting, sorry if that was you, my point is that the AI isn’t like that)