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Do LLMs "have" the "abillity" to be told they are wrong or incorrect and be able to contest that? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think i've only once flat out told one it was wrong about a specific assertion I quoted and it immediately was able to find its way to what I knew to be the correct claim.

I just wonder what would happen if i was in fact mistaken and I told it confidently it was wrong without elaborating

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LLMs have no opinions. They are merely mathematical models that predict how an average person (mostly Internet people) might respond plus a little bit of invisible priming baked in to steer the behaviour a little (which is also easy to change yourself).

A lot of these chatbots, notoriously chatgpt, are heavily primed to pander to the user.

[–] Jessicat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The pandering is really unnerving when you’re not used to it. I’ve used chatGPT only once and it was to edit my resume since I hate doing that. It helped with consistency and wanted active verbs in there which was fine. It was the constant compliments at the top of every response that was so weird. Like I’m asking for feedback, not to hear how wonderful of a writing job I already did. I felt like I was being handled like an oversensitive child.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

That's a great observation —the sycophantic nature of ChatGPT can be really offputting when you're not used to the way the AI writes. Would you like:

tips and tricks on using ChatGPT?
advice on creating your own GPT prompt?
suggestions on less sycophantic AI chatbots?

I'm here to help. Just let me kn

can't do it anymore the bit isnt worth it ew ew ew

[–] Jessicat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the offer but I’m good for now. I find that web searches get me where I need to go. I find scientific papers easily that way.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I think a lot of people turning to these things essentially are over sensitive children in adult bodies