LLMs are good at playing you
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Large language models (LLMs) are eerily human-like: in casual conversations, they mimic humans with near-perfect fidelity. Their language capabilities hold promise for some fields — and spell trouble for others. But above all, the models’ apparent intellect makes us ponder the fate of humanity. I don’t know what the future holds, but I think it helps to understand how often the models simply mess with our heads.

TL;DR: LLMs are just mimicking natural language and conversation. Fact checking and healthy skepticism is not part of their model. For example they can be easily tricked into advocating conspiracy theories, like a fake moon landing. Google Bard is even stating arithmetic falsehoods like 5*6 != 30

  • Lemdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I tried to use ChatGPT help speed up my writing, like I tried using “give me a brief history of Queen Dido’s relationship with Caesar” when working on a character inspired by Queen Dido and then it gave me completely false information relating to some other historical figure.

    Until it can get more trustworthy in that regard I’m not sure how effective it is for writing assistance let alone writing the entire paper by itself.