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Even about topics that you barely are familiar with?
If the prompt includes the older articles, or if the NN is updated once an article is written, wouldn't AI be consistent, too?
Then I research from known references starting with Wikipedia and using the sources at the bottom of the page to expand my research out further.
The entirety of how LLMs work is token prediction based on the entire collective of human creation, that is not research, that is not understanding. that is an over engineered autocomplete. Guessing what the next token is in a string of characters is not the same knowledge of the topic. How much does the Epic of Gilgamesh and the complete works of Shakespeare and the writings of Adolf Hitler and the unhinged Tumblr posts of every Susie, Harry, and Jillian and all of the statistical models born from vectorizing all of that into a billion dimensional vectorspace have any impact on the final output, how does any of that have anything to do with any medical or legal inquiries?
Ive already explained multiple times how a glorified autocomplete predicting words is not knowledge. If you're going to keep sealioning I'm done with this conversation.