In Reply to: It's not stupid because it's still fact. Still learning how posted by Bruinfan4ever on May 22, 2026 at 10:43:06
You need to keep in mind what an LLM actually is before you place your faith in it.
Notice what's missing in all this: the understanding of what any of those words means (other than that they appear in the context of other words), what they correspond to things in the real world, abstract or otherwise, that there is a thing called the real world out there where people live, that there is a thing called people, who also want to get true statements from the model, that statements made typically have a truth values evaluated against known facts in the real world, as opposed to whether they exist as words in the data set, or the ability to construct facts about the world internally that statements can be checked against.
Facts, by the way, are things we humans undertand intuitively through our life experience, but in reality is a recursive nightmare because each fact is a statement about the world whose truth needs to be evaluated against other facts (= true statements) about the world.
An LLM is simply a mechanism to put together coherent sentences that are well-constructed internally, which is a magnificient achievement in and of itself, but that usually is not something impressive enough on its own terms for the general public, so everyone starts seeing Jesus in the tortilla. LLMs are useful tools for certain things as long as you understand that there is no comprehension under the hood.
Until we develop AIs that have (a) an internal representation of the true facts about the world, and (b) the ability to reason across poropositions in meaningful ways. ChatGPT etc, all we have is just Machine Learning, ie., seing patterns in input and now, the ability to predict an output. Prediction is not reasoning. Reasoning is the ability to determine the truth value of a statetement based on prior statements taken as a premise.
So use it as a tool but always be skeptical of what ChatGPT says and not take it as an authority. That would be my suggestion.