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Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] mindbleach 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Mistake" is a misguided label. This system has no idea what's real. It's just completing plausible sentences.

It's not doing critical analysis. It's guessing words. It's eerily close, sometimes - but all these efforts to make it an oracle are a soup sandwich.

LLMs are not the kind of neural network that will accomplish this task reliably. It's simply not what they're for. Plausibility will suffice when drawing a hand, but if you ask it to draw the back of your hand, it will have no such information, but it may try anyway.