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Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Meta "programmed it to simply not answer questions," but it did anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Adding "mathematically/algorithmically" in front of the word "prove" as if it were always implicitly there, and suggesting that it's the only way we should be using the word "prove" seems pretty darned pedantic to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We're describing the behavior of software. It must be implicitly included. Software cannot do anything that isn't algorithmic.