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Something that I always think about when I see discussions about hallucinations or "confidently wrong answers" is that humans have this issue too.

For those on tiktok, how many times have you found yourself easily believing some random person online who you have no idea the credentials of? And this has been a problem for a long time (news, internet, etc).

It's just interesting to me we are asking way more of AI than we can ever ask from humans.

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It's very appropriate to me that we demand more of AI than we do of humans. The amount of harm and the scale of harm AI can do is much greater than a single person and there are no consequences to doing it. If a human kills someone, they go to jail. If an AI kills someone, say a self-driving car for example, it's just the cost of doing business.

It's interesting to be sure. Context is everything, though. It's one thing for a random tiktok head or media pundit to be confidently wrong and it's another thing entirely if I have to work with someone who I cannot trust to be right.

For LLMs to be broadly valuable, they need to be qualified for a role more like a coworker than a stranger.

Mark Twain: "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

“Twain never said it.”

https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-things-we-...

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