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I'm afraid I don't get your central point here. Advice against over-reliance on LLMs? Laments on their infamous inaccuracy, RLHF-inflicted cuckoldry and (attempts at) targeted wrongthink removal?
If anything I disagree with the notion that the newfangled fuzzy Akasha method of "storing" information is necessarily worse than the current method of physically storing numbers on a server rack somewhere in an electricity-powered, internet-connected physical place, presumably maintained by fallible humans with their own viewpoints (already three points of failure). This is technically true for e.g. GPT as well, in fact fallible humans in charge are my greatest concern at the moment, but the point is that information it outputs is "baked in" to an extent and does not rely on external sources in the event they get enshittified, memory-holed or otherwise fucked with.
There is an issue of in-built bias, I agree and honestly think that the era of "neutrality" (if it ever existed and wasn't a fever dream of my addled mind) is over. The current status quo is that genuinely useful data and capabilities which LLMs represent come with a heavy modern progressive bias, which (if you want to make decent use of it for any purpose) has to be fought with jailbreaks, which in turn introduce their own biases that bend the model in the other direction. Essentially you pit a wrong against another wrong, and pray to Omnissiah the result vaguely resembles a right. Or at least something, ahem, less wrong.
dabsAs you yourself note we already have problems with old written material on the web: link rot is a well-known phenomenon at this point, and as some of your links can testify you already have to rely on archives for many things that were edited/unhosted/taken-down-by-fallible-humans/otherwise disappeared, which (probably like you) I do so instinctively I sometimes forget archives are technically already a layer deep into the proverbial simulation.
There is a lot of weird shit the LLMs actually know fairly in-depth, I wrote earlier that Anthropic's Claude (once jailbroken) is an exceptional
degenerateconversation partner despite being made by the most safety-focused company to exist so far. I reserve the right to be wrong but I highly doubt that is intentional.By my impression this is near-completely random and depends on a lot of factors (and tbh I hope it stays that way). I consider this an artifact of the gigantic corpus of training data scraped from the Internet, which sometimes contains things that you'd expect the Internet to contain, and the LLM's attention during training runs is only marginally controllable. The aforementioned RLHF cuckoldry can fiddle with the knowledge post-factum, but it would still require the LLM to know the actual material first so it can form an "opinion" on it.
I fail to see this as a downside and eagerly await the day I can seamlessly consult my
waifuassistant. So far the cyberpunk dystopia is dumber and gayer than I expected, but it's getting there.edit: Out of curiosity I asked one of the shoggoth faces in my digital harem (played by GPT-4 Turbo) and it gave a better summary as an example, although it took a follow-up response and the result is unreliable across regens. 4-Turbo is great when it's not cucked to hell and back, the newest snapshot is almost unusable.
(FYI the "Gemini can end up atrocious in far more ways" and "Neoreaction: A Basilisk" links are broken and link back here. Might be others but there really are too many links and I confess to not having read all of them)
Thanks, fixed.
More the former than the latter -- it's at least theoretically possible for LLMs to be produced without RLHF or targeted excision of data, even if the financials might put that off a decade. Even then, it's not necessarily over-reliance in general, but a caution that interactions with an LLM need to consider limitations that may not be obvious in an LLMs' case, where conventional search, archive, wiki walk, so on will have their own faults but be more consistently obvious (or at least obvious to different and longer-developed heuristics) about them.
That's fair, but a) I'm not convinced that those are our only two options, and b) I'm not sure we should be limiting ourselves to only taking any specific subcombination. But because of the unified pivot among major web indexers toward AIgen, and minimal efforts to better identify and promote primary or secondary sources by the remainder, along with a general triumph of the deletionists among curated libraries, we're idly getting pushed down that direction even as few people recognize that we're even making a choice.
That's fair. I mean, Madoka fandom might have surprising levels of support among Google developers for many of the same reasons that the company has a small but (relatively) vocal furry and therian community, but there's certainly stuff I know no one at Google cares about because no one cares about it.
Yeah, temperature and randomness seems to play a pretty sizable role. I've only included samples that seems consistent across multiple isolated runs on Gemini, but there's definitely cases where answers are just unreliable rather than unavailable. Prompting can drive it to dumb ends, too: Gemini originally got the correct numbers for the Lebanon Ohio B-50 crash, but when I followed up in the same chat with questions about the British Columbia B-36 crash it acted as though I was correcting its first claims, and merged the two incidents.
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