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The average AI criticism has gotten lazy, and that's dangerous (redeem-tomorrow.com)
3 points by gustavo_f on Nov 17, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"For example LLMs can be used to provide surveys of a topic area, and even book recommendations, tailored to a specific learner’s need. They have, famously, a tendency to “hallucinate,” a generous term of art for “fabricating bullshit.” But in just a few months, this tendency has found a curious guardrail: the LLM can browse the web, and in doing so, provide citations and links that you can check yourself. So where before you might have been led toward publications that didn’t exist, you can now prompt the LLM to ensure it’s giving you proof."

Who wants to browser the Web with a chat bot? Who wants to dig through garbage, verify it, and provide free labor for AI companies? What are these "citations"? Is the "proof" even in the Web?




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