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It's time to call a spade a spade. ChatGPT isn't just hallucinating. It's a bullshit machine. (aus.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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It's time to call a spade a spade. ChatGPT isn't just hallucinating. It's a bullshit machine.

From TFA (thanks @mxtiffanyleigh for sharing):

"Bullshit is 'any utterance produced where a speaker has indifference towards the truth of the utterance'. That explanation, in turn, is divided into two "species": hard bullshit, which occurs when there is an agenda to mislead, or soft bullshit, which is uttered without agenda.

"ChatGPT is at minimum a soft bullshitter or a bullshit machine, because if it is not an agent then it can neither hold any attitudes towards truth nor towards deceiving hearers about its (or, perhaps more properly, its users') agenda."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/researchers-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-terminology

@technology #technology #chatGPT #LLM #LargeLanguageModels

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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think for the sake of mixed company and delicate sensibilities we should refer to this as a "BM" rather than a "bullshit machine". Therefore it could be a LLM BM, or simply a BM.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Large Bowel Movement, got it.