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What's the point of the technology if it will provide an answer regardless of the accuracy? And what prevents this from being dangerous when the factual and ficticious answers are indistinguishable?
We have the same problem with people . Somehow, we've managed to build a civilization that can, occasionally, fly people to the Moon and get them back. Even if LLMs never get any more reliable than your average human, they're still valuable because they know much more than any single human ever could, run faster, only eat electricity, and can be scaled up without all kinds of nasty social and political problems. That…
I assure you, those still exist in AI. AI follows whatever political dogma it is trained on, regardless of if you point out how logically flawed it is.
If it is trained to say 1+1=3, then no matter what proofs you provide, it will not budge.