TBH, it's shockingly accurate at mimicking what most humans do under the same conditions. If you've ever taught, you know what I mean : half digested regurgitation of lessons, made up quotes, lazy copy / pasting etc. And don't get me started on the corporate culture.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

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