Subj : Re: ChatGPT Writing
To   : Bob Worm
From : jimmylogan
Date : Wed Dec 03 2025 20:58:51

-=> Bob Worm wrote to jimmylogan <=-

 > If you ask me a question and I give you an incorrect answer, but I
 > believe that it is true, am I hallucinating? Or am I mistaken? Or is
 > my information outdated?

 BW> If a human is unsure they would say "I'm not sure", or "it's something
 BW> like..." or "I think it's..." - possibly "I don't know".

 BW> Our memories aren't perfect but it's unusual for us to assert with 100%
 BW> confidence that something is correct when it's not. Apparently today's
 BW> AI more-or-less always confidently asserts that (correct and incorrect)
 BW> things are fact because during the training phase, confident answers
 BW> get scored higher than wishy washy ones. Show me the incentives and
 BW> I'll show you the outcome.

LOL - yeah, I can see that...

 BW> A colleague of mine asked ChatGPT to answer some technical questions so
 BW> he could fill in basic parts of an RFI document before taking it to the
 BW> technical teams for completion. He asked it what OS ran on a particular
 BW> piece of kit - there are actually two correct options for that, it
 BW> offered neither and instead confidently asserted that it was a third,
 BW> totally incorrect, option. It's not about getting outdated code /
 BW> config (even a human could do that if not "in the know") - but when it
 BW> just makes up syntax or entire non-existent libraries that's a
 BW> different story.

But that 'third option' - you're saying it didn't 'find' that somewhere
in a dataset, and just made it up?

 BW> Just look at all the recent scandals around people filing court cases
 BW> prepared by ChatGPT which refer to legal precedents where either the
 BW> case was irrelevant to the point, didn't contain what ChatGPT said it
 BW> did or didn't exist at all.

I've not seen/read those. Assuuming you have some links? :-)



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