It's even worse: It answers the questions correctly enough that most people cannot tell the difference β but still not reliably correctly. Meaning you get answer that sound very convincing, but could easily still be dead wrong.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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Except when you ask it for the meaning of an acronym and they say something with totally different letters. Yet people treat it as a source on something they know so little about that they cannot possibly tell it its just spitting out nonsense.
lol ur right
Okay, but what does afnab really stand for? Don't leave us hanging.
nothing? idk xD i just mashed my keyboard aha
Just like your regular uncle. Or ultra right podcaster.
It's no surprise llms behave like the most vocal and dubiously confident people in the world.
its just spitting out nonsense
That's exactly it. LLMs and their image counterparts have no innate or burgeoning knowledge as people tend to assume. Their singular, core function is to generate their output from literal random noise, like the static you used to see on TV. So the response to the same question will change because the random noise changed, not because the algorithm learned or reconsidered anything. And if you used the same noise, the answer would be identical. No knowledgeable or self-sufficient AI will ever evolve from that.
It allow to pass from zero knowledge on a subject to 0.1 knoweldge which make people with a little brain to win z little time at the start of a projet. It is still a ecological disaster though. The people comparing it to the ring is the closest I think.
It works by predicting the most likely words to follow the sequence you already have, with a bit of noise added. The result is that if you ask it a question, it is effectively designed to sound as much like an answer as possible. Whether or not that answer is true is out of scope, and not something that technology could ever consider.
I like to talk about it as if it's the world's best prop master. You ask for a prop, and you'll be given one of the most realistic props imaginable. You want a medical chart, it will give you a chart that might fool a doctor. You ask for a legal brief, it has one that might just fool a judge in court. If you ask it for a computer program, what it spits out might actually compile and/or run. But, of course, these are props. They're only designed to look good on camera. At most, someone will stream it in 4k, pause it, and try to read the prop while it's on screen.
As someone who has been annoyed with props for decades, I love that. No more "computer code" scenes where it's just random gobbledygook. But, someone trying to use the output as if it's real is just as clever as someone who tries to spend prop money from a movie.
it says as you type that it can make mistakes
Try feeding it human babies!
With the amount of environmental damage AI is causing, we are feeding it human babies. They're just in the future so they don't really count of you don't think about it too hard.
With the amount of deaths coal power causes, we are also feeding it present day people. Also applies to any other electricity consummation
Only if there was a alternative...
Capitalism kills.
if you value cheap drywall/plasterboard, support your local coal plant.
The Gypsum from drywall is not mined out of rock, but is created chemically from the Sulfur of the chimney stacks mixed with powdered limestone.
(this message was paid for by the Coal assosciation. "Coal: We're doing our bit.")
It slowly consumes the babies over the next 60 years, or however long before the water wars kill us all.
It's not better if it actually works:
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the sub-ether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe β ninety-six billion planets β into the super-circuit that would connect them all into the one super-calculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a momentβs silence, he said, βNow, Dwar Ev.β
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. βThe honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.β
βThank you,β said Dwar Reyn. βIt shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.β
He turned to face the machine. βIs there a God?β
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
βYes, now there is a God.β
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.
~ Fredric Brown, 1954
Can we feed it the richest people first and distribute the money to the people of that country?
I donβt know what youβre talking about AI helped me treat my scarlet rot.
It should also watch you eat,sleep and shit than maybe, just maybe, someday it can be as reliable as a teenager
These baby giraffes, they die painlessly?
Oh yes, once the acid dissolves all their nerve endings, they stop feeling pain! Then they die!
Rotoscoping the no part would work so well