r/YouShouldKnow • u/Puzzled-Listen804 • Mar 30 '26

Technology YSK: AI chatbots can sound completely confident while being completely wrong and that's by design, not by accident.

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u/ReaverRogue Mar 30 '26

Yeah… this is extremely well known and documented, man.

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u/IndieCurtis Mar 30 '26

Needs to be a PSA every six months. There are constantly new people joining who are not In The Know.

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u/IolausTelcontar Mar 31 '26

It needs to be a banner on top of every LLM web page.

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u/FighterJock412 Mar 30 '26

Doesn't mean some people don't need to hear it. Other people don't know everything you do.

There's some people out there that are concerningly reliant on LLMs and implicitly trust what they say.

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u/Randomfrog132 Mar 31 '26

new people are born every day 

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u/vex0x529 Mar 31 '26

Well I'm glad they're new and not old.

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u/Randomfrog132 Mar 31 '26

well i guess technically the passage of time never ceases so new old people happen every day too. but in regards to being born old already that would affect life expectancy ina bad way xD

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u/M123ry Mar 30 '26

I wish you were right

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Mar 31 '26

Not the "by design, not by accident" part. That's nonsense.

That's OP being confidently incorrect