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Yeah, and I like AI being used for what it's good at, but using LLMs as a source of truth shows a fundamental misunderstanding of LLMs.
It's the marketing. I can't really blame people for thinking LLMs can do what they're advertised.
Of course you can! I blame people all the time, and for a lot less!
And am I dead? Only socially.
I can absolutely blame people for uncritically accepting whatever the fuck advertisers tell them to believe.
Yes, I can blame people
It takes almost no effort to figure out that LLMs are unreliable daydreamers
There's also a compounding problem right? Like if people take AI as a source and make content with it, that content will be rescraped for AI data sets thereby reaffirming information that may be false.
https://xkcd.com/978/
I've noticed it used much more by younger content creators.
I agree
People are really stupid, almost no one has a working knowledge of LLMs unless they are actively coding one
And we are getting to the point with iterative training that soon no human will understand how the context black box works.
Considering what we have access to now, I have no doubt that there are already private models that the devs have no insight into the tokenization process
You don't need to fully understand how an LLM works at a deep level to know that it doesn't in any way check if what it's outputting corresponds to truth - it doesn't check the meaning of it at all.
That's not exactly true for the last and current generation, there are coach expert systems that verify certain outputs before they're ever presented to the consumer but still are only about 75% useful, though that number is growing.
Still less reliable than a subject expert human though