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In my case, there are 95 packages that depend on zlib, so removing it is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Fortunately though, GPT also suggested refreshing the gpg keys, which did solve the update problem I was having.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Filed under: "LLMs are designed to make convincing sentences. Language models should not be used as knowledge models."

I wish I got a dollar every time someone shared their surprise of what a LLM said that was factually Incorrect. I wouldn't need to work a day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

People expect a language model to be really good at other things besides language.

If you’re writing an email where you need to express a particular thought or a feeling, ask some LLM what would be a good way to say it. Even though the suggestions are pretty useful, they may still require some editing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This use case and asking for information are completely different things. It can stylize some input perfectly fine. It just can't be a source of accurate information.It is trained to generate text that sounds plausible.

There are already ways to get around that, even though they aren't perfect. You can give the source of truth and ask it to answer using only information found in there. Even then, you should check. the accuracy of its responses.