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I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw

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Post by LifeWithGlee » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

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Post by gbalduzzi » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

Am I the only one not seeing a point in asking an LLM philosophical questions, especially about themselves?

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Post by kryptozinc » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

Water is wet

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Post by jsbarth » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

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Post by McGlockenshire » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

gbalduzzi wrote: post #3

Am I the only one not seeing a point in asking an LLM philosophical questions, especially about themselves?

They can't even reliably answer questions about their own training!

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Post by verdverm » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

gbalduzzi wrote: post #3

Am I the only one not seeing a point in asking an LLM philosophical questions, especially about themselves?

no, I also find the concept of "ai lying" to be incorrect as they lack intent

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Post by kevincox » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

Wow an LLM hallucinated? What a novel discovery.

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Post by limaoscarjuliet » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

It passes Turing test. However, it does NOT think. Let's stop pretending it does.

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Post by josefritzishere » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

The word guessing machine guessed words? I think this is the expected behavior.