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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">May 26, 2025 11:57:18 Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>:</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">> It's like Wikipedia.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">No, Wikipedia has (at least historically) human editors who supposedly have some knowledge of reality and history.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">An LLM response is going to be a series of tokens predicted based on probabilities from its training data. The output may correspond to a ground truth in the real world, but only because it was trained on data which contained that ground truth.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Assuming the sources it cites are real works, it seems fine as a search engine, but the text that it outputs should absolutely not be thought of as something arrived at by similar means as text produced by supposedly knowledgeable and well-intentioned humans.</span>
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