It's a spicy predictive text machine, and I hate that we've been suckered into thinking otherwise. One of the many epic grifts of our age.
Reposted from Katie Mack
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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