Kate O'Neill

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The biggest issue limiting AI is also one of its strengths: its notorious ability to make stuff up, to hallucinate. Remember that LLMs work by predicting the most likely words to follow the prompt you gave it based on the statistical patterns in its training data. It does not care if the words are true, meaningful, or original. It just wants to produce a coherent and plausible text that makes you happy. Hallucinations sound likely and contextually appropriate enough to make it hard to tell lies from the truth.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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