Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids

• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It would be more accurate to say that rather than knowing anything at all they have a model of the statistical relationship between a series of tokens and subsequent tokens which words are apt to follow other words and because the training set contains many true things the words produced in response to queries often contain true statements and almost always contain statements that LOOK like true statements.

  Since it has no inherent model of the world to draw on and only such statistical relationships you should check anything important

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you say more accurate but all I see is a very roundabout way of saying fucking wrong all the goddamn time

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it produces things that appear to be cohesive sentences. there is no reason to assign correctness to a sentence.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        maybe you should tell that to the companies that shove it in every crevice of every website and app. why is it on search results? why is it summarizing emails? why is it literally doing anything? it’s useless. actually it’s less than useless. it’s misleading and harmful. and the companies should be held liable for it.

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