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Comment by irishcoffee | Hacker News Reader

15 years ago I was talking to my HR rep about covering my child on healthcare. Her other parent and I were not married. “No you can’t cover her!” “Why not, I’m one of the two parents?” “Because you’re not married!” “So what?”

Humans also make shit up all the time.

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Cool, but the information on government websites generally meets a higher standard than just ‘making shit up all the time’ so it’s not really a relevant comparison.

We must not live on the same planet. Most government websites are completely fucking useless here. It’s different where you’re from?

Useless, perhaps, but generally say true things rather than false things, in my experience.

We were discussing zoning in another thread, I think your comment here is very appropriate. People make up all sorts of reasons to oppose land uses, which is part of the reason municipal land control is so dangerous.

Yes, but when a human makes shit up, they're still legally liable for what they said, and depending on context can be compelled to fix the issue or lose their job.

If an LLM makes shit up, your one and only recourse is "computer says no".

> Humans also make shit up all the time.

Kind of like saying something happens "all the time" and sharing a single example from 15 years ago. Not to mention that a private company's HR team is not the government.

I, for one, completely agree with the statement that 'humans make things up all the time' (often non-maliciously) also

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