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Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by thearch@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Meta "programmed it to simply not answer questions," but it did anyway.

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[–] doodledup@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How does that make any sense when trying to use something for knowledge? Being inherently wrong is the opposite of helpful for knowledge.

It was never designed to reproduce knowledge. It was designed to do reasoning and natural language processing and generation. You're using it wrong.

LULWUT

If you don't know what you're talking about and don't have any capacity to learn something new, it's sometimes best to stop talking. Especially when you're starting to get rude to knowlegable people that try to explain it to you.