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Let's be careful about anthropomorphizing large language models.

They are probabilistic models that are simply giving you words in a sequence they think makes the most sense to them.

No one is "lying" to you :)

Well, yes, it does not know it is lying (it does not know anything, in fact). But for some reason, with Sol specifically, it has persistently written false information when it had the correct information within its context to a degree I've not experienced with other models.

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