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AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

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423 points sohkamyung | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.865s | source
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roguecoder ◴[22 Oct 25 15:12 UTC] No.45670387[source]▶
I am curious if LLMs evangelists understand how off-putting it is when they knee-jerk rationalize how badly these tools are performing. It makes it seem like it isn't about technological capabilities: it is about a religious belief that "competence" is too much to ask of either them or their software tools.
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1. welshwelsh ◴[22 Oct 25 15:38 UTC] No.45670776[source]▶
Is that just an LLM thing? I thought that as a society, we decided a long time ago that competence doesn't really matter.

Why else would we be giving high school diplomas to people who can't read at a 5th grade level? Or offshore call center jobs to people who have poor English skills?

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2. burnte ◴[22 Oct 25 19:06 UTC] No.45673693[source]▶
It's been a 50 year downward slope. We're in the harvest phase of that crop. All the people we raised to believe their incompetence was just as valid as other people's facts are now confidently running things because they think magical thinking works.