points by fallingbananna 2 days ago | 0 comments
On the same note, I wonder why AI almost never gives me links to Wikipedia. Do they have it in training data without any attribution?
It feels like the distribution of sources/links it outputs is 33% Reddit, 33% Random blog, 33% Not Found.
[–] TheRealPomax 2 days ago
The LLM weights are not tuned for truth, including citing sources, it's tuned for "doing as much as possible, as fast as possible, on your own". If you ask it for a source, it literally has to autocomplete one, it's not going to figure out which source is the most appropriate or authoritative as part of that text generation pass.
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