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yup and when you DO catch it spitting out nonsense. it"ll say "oh you right, let me change that".. 🙄 like, why do I have to tell you that you're wrong about something? You should already know it's wrong and fix it without me ever pointing it out.
But it didn't even understand it was wrong
It can't understand that. It can't understand anything
The Human-feedbaxk algorithm dictates humans prefer to receive an apology so it does.
That's because it doesn't really 'know' things in the same way you and I do. It's much more like having a gut reaction to something and then spitting it out as truth; LLMs don't really have the capability to ruminate about something. The one pass through their neural network is all they get unless it's a 'reasoning' model that then has multiple passes as it generates an approximation of train-of-thought - but even then, its output is still a series of approximations.
When its training data had something resembling corrections in it, the most likely text that came afterwards was 'oh you're right, let me fix that' - so that's what the LLM outputs. That's all there is to it.