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larsmb@mastodon.online

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

I cringe whenever someone says "I asked /#Claude/..." about facts.

I've referenced the full specs, enabled deep research & extended "thinking", and would get back a response elaborating all the "research" they've done and how the fact just wasn't available and so the report alas! had to proceed with some assumption.

Which might be reasonable — if the fact wasn't explicitly stated in the very link I provided as part of the prompt.

This is not hallucination. This is failure.

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larsmb@mastodon.online

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

Reply to @gregkh

@gregkh That's a most excellent term, thanks for making me aware of it!

Unfortunately, it seems most people genuinely excited about GenAI these days are; or operate in areas where facts/correctness are optional. It's like learning your colleague idolizes certain men or calls CO2 "the gas of life" 💔

(Which dampens my own technical fascination with the tech. Excuse me, but we can do *what* with "mere" stochastics and Monte Carlo‽ You can't tell me that's not cool.)

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pavel

Pavel Machek

Reply to @gregkh
@gregkh @larsmb You can get another example here: "[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.15 6/8] PM: Restrict swap use to later in the suspend"
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