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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

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509 points tosh | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 09:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.315s | source

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saberience ◴[02 Sep 25 16:12 UTC] No.45105036[source]▶
Encyclopedias are lossy Encyclopedias.

Also, humans hallucinate more than LLMs.

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1. krupan ◴[02 Sep 25 16:46 UTC] No.45105622[source]▶
Do they hallucinate more? How many words per day do humans spit out vs the LLMs, and what is the hallucination rate? Also, don't count humans saying, "I'm not sure but I think..." as a hallucination, because it's not.