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Comment by belter

1 day ago

> But if you're willing to learn, this is rocket fuel.

LLMs will tell you 1 or 2 lies for each 20 facts. Its a hard way to learn. They cant even get their urls right...

> LLMs will tell you 1 or 2 lies for each 20 facts. Its a hard way to learn.

That was my experience when growing up with school also, except you got punished one way or another for speaking up/trying to correct the teacher. If I speak up with the LLM they either explain why what they said is true, or corrects themselves, 0 emotions involved.

> They cant even get their urls right...

Famously never happens with humans.

  • You are ignoring the fact that the types of mistakes or lies are of a different nature.

    If you are in class, and you incorrectly argue, there is a mistake in an explanation of Derivatives or Physics, but you are the one in error, your Teacher hopefully, will not say: "Oh, I am sorry you are absolutely correct. Thank you for your advice.."

    • Yeah, no of course if I'm wrong I don't expect the teacher to agree with me, what kind of argument is that? I thought it was clear, but the base premise of my previous comment is that the teacher is incorrect and refuse corrections...

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And you are saying human teachers or online materials won't lie to you once or twice for every 20 facts? no matter how small. Did you do any comparison?

  • it's not jsut the lies, but how it lies and the fact that LLMs are very hesitant to call out humans on their BS

    • Is this the newest meme?

      Me: “explain why radioactive half-life changes with temperature”

      ChatGPT 4o: “ Short answer: It doesn’t—at least not significantly. Radioactive Half-Life is (Almost Always) Temperature-Independent”

      …and then it goes on to give a few edge cases where there’s a tiny effect.

  • You are missing the point. See my comment to @diggan in this thread. LLMs lie in a different way.