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"content": "<p>Large Language Models (LLMs) are lying machines. You might say: "I use it all the time for coding or research and I find it extremely helpful". I can't and won't dispute your experience of useful, insightful, or even spiritually awakening output. I am stating that its impossible for the LLM not to lie. This is because the LLM has no concept of fact, fiction, lie, or truth. Some lies happen to be true, some lies can be insightful or helpful, some lies can even be deeply personal. Humans are wonderfully powerful pattern matchers. We can extract meaning from enormous piles of nonsense, quickly forgetting the meaningless and remembering the useful. It gives us an extremely warped perception of these systems.</p><p>This isn't a bug to be worked out or a temporary issue that some company can overcome with just one more model, its an inherent part of how the system works. LLMs are just that, language models. When fed unimaginable amounts of examples they can produce syntactically correct text. They don't have the capacity to understand and no amount of tweaking, training, or layering will produce a system that does, that's magical thinking.</p>",
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