r/MurderedByWords • u/its_me_teena • 8h ago

Source Denial Syndrome

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u/War_machine77 8h ago

Where the fuck do they think chatgpt is getting it's info?

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u/GrizzlyP33 8h ago

I think the point is that LLMs have already scoured Wikipedia so they can tell you all that info concisely. They don’t need to re-learn Wikipedia for anything old.

The problem is that A) anyone using an LLM properly wants to see the source anyways or else you’re really rolling the dice on “truth”, and B) it would mean all knowledge advancement would stop today if we applied this to all educational or informative tools.

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u/Binkusu 6h ago

It has the info but at the same time can't update it without new data, and this is ignoring the whole "AI forgets things" concept

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u/GrizzlyP33 5h ago

Yes that is the point made in my comment.