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ChatGPT would have been so much useful and trustworthy if it is able to accept that it doesn't know an answer. (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/chatgpt

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Small rant : Basically, the title. Instead of answering every question, if it instead said it doesn't know the answer, it would have been trustworthy.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I'd love to agree with you - but when people say that LLMs are stochastic parrots, this is what they mean...

LLMs don't actually know what the words they're saying mean, they just know what words are most likely to be next to each other based on training data.

Because they don't know the meaning of what they're saying, they also don't know the factuality of what they're saying - as such they simply can't self-fact check.

[–] Malfeasant 1 points 5 months ago

Is that so different from most people?

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