That bothers me too. Get an actual expert source to verify before you publish shit from randos on Twitter and Reddit.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
How about the outlet checks and finds out?
I did, and I couldn’t get low-temperature Gemini or a local LLM to replicate it, and not all the tariffs seem to be based on the trade deficit ratio, though some suspiciously are.
Sorry, but this is a button of mine, outlets that ask stupidly easy to verify questions but dont even try. No, just cite people on Reddit and Twitter…
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
In this case, it’s as simple as “type it into ChatGPT, like the Reddit users did” :/
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
“these lazy fucks in the government are using ai to come up with policy”
Also news outlet
“I am too lazy to do the laziest thing I’m angry about, even though it’s my literal job”
Yoga@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
“News outlet” is a huge stretch. It’s a crypto currency blog pretending to be news.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
But that doesn’t confirm or deny that Trumps formula came from ChatGPT, they could both be drawing from some other source.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You can generally toggle LLM “grounding” features, aka inserting web searches into their context.
Modern LLMs have a information “cutoff” of a few months ago, at the latest, so the base models will have zero awareness of this formula.
drislands@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
“several X users claim”, they say for sources. Christ Almighty.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Some? A huge portion are. Numerous others have replicated it with visual proof. I agree that the news sites should be verifying it, but NYT did and also documented their proof.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Fogle@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Am I still going crazy or what, trade deficit =/= tariffs right??
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Thanks, much appreciated.
Grostleton@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Because the article is likely just more GenAI vomit, and an LLM doesn’t have any degree of deductive reasoning ability to begin with.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
TBH it’s probably human written.
I used to write small articles for a tech news outlet on the side (HardOCP), and the entire site went under well before the AI boom because no one can compete with slaves writing mountains of SEO garbage, especially when Google promotes it.
Point being, this was a problem well before the rise of LLMs.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Are you annoyed that they didn’t try to replicate it, or that they’re disparaging LLMs?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That they didn’t try to replicate it.
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 17 minutes ago
They tariffed countries with no people in them.