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Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

#35

I think what the world really needed right now was an LLM making up fake statistics, presented in a convincing high quality way. There is just no way this could ever be a problem. Surely everybody knows that if presented with some data they need to do a deep dive into the actual sources instead of blindly trusting a graph. I seriously want to know what was going on in the mind of the person who made this.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

#36
From a previous submission of this domain (May last year): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35798482

> After trying some queries, I found ChatGPT is good at finding public data, sometimes it may not be accurate, but overall, pretty good.

GPT-4o is no more reliable for this than GPT-4 or GPT-3.5 before it.

One of the many unintuitive things about LLMs is that they are terrible tools for looking up specific facts about the world - which is weird, because that's traditionally one of the things computers have been best at.

If you want to build a working version of a system like this the trick would be to provide it access to tools for looking up data in citable, reliable data sources - things like the CIA World Factbook.

Then display the charts along with a link to that underlying reliable data.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

#37
post #36

From a previous submission of this domain (May last year): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35798482 > After trying some queries, I found ChatGPT is good at finding public data, sometimes it may not be accurate, but overall, pretty good. GPT-4o is no more reliable for this than GPT-4 or GPT-3.5 before it. One of the many unintuitive things about LLMs is that they are terrible tools for looking up specific facts a…

GPT-4o has been the most aggressive one-shot hallucinator of the GPT-4 class models for me.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

#38

I think what the world really needed right now was an LLM making up fake statistics, presented in a convincing high quality way. There is just no way this could ever be a problem. Surely everybody knows that if presented with some data they need to do a deep dive into the actual sources instead of blindly trusting a graph. I seriously want to know what was going on in the mind of the person who made this.

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Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

#39
post #12

This might be a fun project, but it's going to cause extreme misunderstanding for many people. People trust graphs, and users of this site are going to unwittingly spread falsehoods to for example r/dataisbeautiful or even less reliable social media pages. I'd urge you to take this site down as it will be net negative to the world.

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Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

#40

How is this in any way different than an RNG? The numbers are completely made up, does slapping an AI label on a RNG somehow make this unique or interesting?

It's like russian roulette but the bullet is a RNG. The number of bullets is also a RNG. The gun is a RNG too.
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