Post
The constant mental vigilance in a generative world is exhausting.
"I asked Claude to do $thing and it did this!"
No it didn't. No you didn't. Probably none of that happened.
And somehow, being unwilling to admit the thing is just making stuff up is annoying and unnecessary, not the damn model.
Thats what you and most AI haters miss.
LLMs are right like 90% or so at a time.
Even 80B models are right a big majority of the time. This is why normies and managerial staff are like "this is amazing". They dont know what they dont know.
Its that last 10% that breaks all sorts of stuff and people. And you have to be a specialist in that 10% to know when its bullshitting/hallucinating/lying to you.
@mttaggart The required hypervigilance is exhausting and beyond human capacity to maintain, and so few will admit they can't do it (then there are the ones who take *pride* in refusing vigilance, and I consider them some kind of mad)
I can't get people to understand that the "hallucination" problem is unsolvable because "hallucination" is how it works. That's all it does. Next tokens based on the whole previous series of tokens that represent "the conversation" being had between prompts and responses combined with the hidden prompts that give the thing its flavor. The fact that it is "right" isn't part of it. That's why they never say, "I don't know". They don't know anything. They are literally making it up every single time. It's why they are so expensive and why they are ruining the environment. There is no recall, no memory, no "knowing". As I've seen it said elsewhere, "there is no 'there' there". It's worse than the Chinese Room thought experiment because at least that produces correct responses. This creates the illusion of a correct response. We are killing the earth and building an inescapable surveillance state around technology that will never get any better than it is right now.
@jrdepriest The one that gets me is the "reasoning" models. They're just making up more text to fluff the context! No thought is happening, nor can it! It's maddening.
@mttaggart @jrdepriest it's just working backwards to "explain" it's bullshit answer, or so I heard.
if so that's a straight up con.
It's the same "model" your know-it-all uncle uses every Thanksgiving: bloviation.
Install bonfire.cafe
Get the full app experience
