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The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

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323 points steerlabs | 2 comments | 04 Dec 25 20:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.057s | source
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psunavy03 ◴[08 Dec 25 16:29 UTC] No.46194267[source]▶
Ironic considering how many LLMs are competing to be trained on Reddit . . . which is the biggest repository of confidently incorrect people on the entire Internet. And I'm not even talking politics.

I've lost count of how much stuff I've seen there related to things I can credibly professionally or personally speak to that is absolute, unadulterated misinformation and bullshit. And this is now LLM training data.

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1. brandon272 ◴[08 Dec 25 16:33 UTC] No.46194323[source]▶
One thing I've had to explain to many confused friends who use reddit is that many of the people presenting themselves as domain experts in subreddits related to fields like law, accounting, plumbing, electrical, construction, etc. have absolutely no connection to or experience in whatever the field is.
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2. psunavy03 ◴[08 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46194734[source]▶
I had a co-worker talk once about how awesome Reddit was and how much life advice she'd taken from it and I was just like . . . yeah . . .