Comment by simoncion
9 hours ago
Given aphyr's vocation (and how very lucrative it is), and how years and years of his writing indicates that he's very devoted to getting a correct and complete answer when investigating a question, I find it hard to believe that he's not using a paid version of the LLMs. If I knew him, I'd ask and verify, but I don't, so I won't.
> Lets stick to my challenge please...
I did. Your challenge was literally:
If it bullshits so much, you wouldn't have a problem giving me an example of it bullshitting on ChatGPT (paid version)? Lets take any example of a text prompt fitting a few pages - it may be a question in science or math or any domain. Can you get it to bullshit?
father_phi's two-sentence question about the whether one can use a cup that's closed at the top and open at the bottom definitely counts. Given what I've mentioned about apyhr above, I expect he has already run your challenge on the fanciest-available version and reported on the results in the essay under discussion.
> Use the thinking version gpt5.4 (text) and tell me if it bullshits
This was what I said. Text! Despite me specifically asking for text, you've shown a voice example. Not sure why?
I believe you and I agree that GPT 5.4 thinking on text that fits < 4 pages never bullshits? Then we are good!
If we agree on this, I think the post doesn't capture this in spirit.
> This was what I said. Text!
No, that's what you said after I provided an example of paid ChatGPT emitting complete bullshit from a two sentence prompt.
The challenge you issued is at [0].
[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692592>
> If it bullshits so much, you wouldn't have a problem giving me an example of it bullshitting on ChatGPT (paid version)? Lets take any example of a text prompt fitting a few pages - it may be a question in science or math or any domain. Can you get it to bullshit?
I have clearly written text prompt here. And I repeated a few times. It’s not my fault you didn’t read it. You are coming across as a bit of a bad faith arguer.
In any case, you agree that under these constraints bullshitting doesn’t exist?
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