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points by pizza234 3 days ago | 0 comments
> When are people going to stop anthropomorhizing these things and accept that they're bullshit machines?

Well, anthropomorhizing is actually a fitting way of thinking AIs: they lie like humans do.

[–] 4ndrewl 3 days ago
They don't! They may appear to make untruthful statements, but they're making them without any reference to a concept of truth.

"make no mistakes"

[–] pizza234 1 day ago
No, this is false.

See here: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.68/ ("The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It’s Lying").