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NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)
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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I can't remember where I read it but someone said "LLM's provide three types of answer: so vague as to be useless, directly plagiarized from a source and reworded, or flat out wrong but confidently stated as the truth." I'm probably butchering the quote, but that was the gist of it.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hold on let me have chat gpt rephrase that for you.

I'm not exactly sure of the source, but there was a statement suggesting that language models offer three kinds of responses: ones that are too general to be of any value, those that essentially mimic existing content in a slightly altered form, and assertions that are completely incorrect yet presented with unwavering certainty. I might be paraphrasing inaccurately, but that was the essence.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

So the same as answers on Reddit then

[–] blue_struct@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

To me the answers are useful enough and I appreciate that it understands vague questions. When I don't know enough about a topic to know what terms to punch into a search engine, I can use ChatGPT as a first step and go from there.