• rozodru@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Claude AI does this ALL the time too. It NEEDS to give a solution, it rarely can say “I don’t know” so it will just completely make up a solution that it thinks is right without actually checking to see the solution exists. It will make/dream up programs or libraries that don’t and have never existed OR it will tell you something can do something when it has never been able to do that thing ever.

    And that’s just how all these LLMs have been built. they MUST provide a solution so they all lie. they’ve been programmed this way to ensure maximum profits. Github Copilot is a bit better because it’s with me in my code so it’s suggestions, most of the time, actually work because it can see the context and whats around it. Claude is absolute garbage, MS Copilot is about the same caliber if not worse than Claude, and Chatgpt is only good for content writing or bouncing ideas off of.

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      Are you using Claude web chat or Claude code? Because my experience with it is vastly different eve when using the same underlying model. Clause code isn’t perfect and gets stuff wrong, but it can run the project check the output and realize it’s mistake and fix it in many cases. It doesn’t fix logic flaws, but it can fix hallucinations of library methods that don’t exist.

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      11 hours ago

      LLM are just sophisticated text predictions engine. They don’t know anything, so they can’t produce an “I don’t know” because they can always generate a text prediction and they can’t think.

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        They could be programmed to do some double/triple checking, and return “i dont know” when the checks are negative. I guess that would compromise the apparence of oracle that their parent companies seem to dissimulately push onto them.

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        9 hours ago

        Tool use, reasoning, chain of thought, those are the things that set llm systems apart. While you are correct in the most basic sense, it’s like saying a car is only a platform with wheels, it’s reductive of the capabilities

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          LLM are prediction engine. They don’t have knowledge, they only chain words together related to your topic.

          They don’t know they are wrong because they just don’t know anything period.