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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: 0.493s | 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. wg0 ◴[22 Oct 25 18:06 UTC] No.45672916[source]▶
Anyone and everyone who has bought any stocks into the circular Ponzi pyramid has this knee jerk response to rationalise LLM failure modes.

They want to believe that statistical distribution of meaningless tokens is real cognition of machines and if not that, works flawlessly for most of the cases and if not flawlessly, is usable enough to be valued at trillions of dollars collectively.

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2. anigbrowl ◴[23 Oct 25 05:59 UTC] No.45678622[source]▶
I actually believe in the idea of machine cognition (with a bunch of caveats which I'm not going to type out here) but fully agree it's being used to hype the market through a combination of cynicism and naivete.

statistical distribution of meaningless tokens As a aside note the biggest argument for the possibility of machine consciousness is the depressing fact that so many humans are uncritical bullshit spreaders themselves.