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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, and the way it will confidently give you a wrong answer instead of either asking for more information or saying it just doesn't know is equally annoying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Because giving answers is not a LLM's job. A LLM's job is to generate text that looks like an answer. And we then try to coax framework that into generating correct answers as often as possible, with mixed results.