New Anti-LLM Quotes It’s the man at the bar trying to explain to a woman how period cramps feel, actually. It’s the wrong philosophy undergrad trying to explain to the correct physics PhD candidate why she’s wrong during discussion hours. It’s the guy who argues an incorrect point relentlessly and then, upon realizing that he’s wrong, tells you he doesn’t want to make a big thing of it and walks away. Well, it’s kind of like talking to a drunk guy at a bar: they’re wrong, but very confident about it. Like with anything LLM, it doesn’t know anything. It simply complies without knowing who you are talking about. And you uphold the illusion by not questioning it. All it does is produce deterministic output based on its training data. The LLM has literally no idea which one is better. It cannot think. It does not understand what it is putting on the screen. I find most LLMs are subject to this type of error where, as your conversation context gets longer, it becomes dramatically stupider. Try playing chess with it — once it comes to the midgame it forgets which moves it just made, hallucinating the context up to that point, even when provided the position. I’ve most disliked made-up, completely incorrect answers easily proven to be so, followed by GPT-grovelling when contradicted with the facts, promises to learn and strive to do better. Time after time the same dodging and weaseling. A simple “I don’t know” would be a great start. People who don’t know better are going to swallow those crap answers. I do worry that providing a device in our hands that thinks is going to reduce our learned ability to rationally process and check what it puts out, just like I’ve lost the ability to check if my calculator is lying to me. And not to get all dystopian here... but what if what that tool is telling me is true is, for whatever reason, not. Using it makes me think even more considering how even their better Copilot models still create a mess. It’s often like trying to get a three-year-old to do simple tasks. Well, using a calculator has killed the need to do most math and AI will kill the need to think. On the LLM: It’s too positive. I don’t always want it to follow my ideas and I don’t want to hear how much my feedback is appreciated. Act like a machine.