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EastLondonCoderlast Friday at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s deliberate. “Correct” implies anchoring to a truth function the model doesn’t have. “Plausible” is what it’s actually optimising for, and the disconnect between the two is where most of the surprises (and pitfalls) show up.

As someone else put it well: what an LLM does is confabulate stories. Some of them just happen to be true.


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paulddraperlast Friday at 3:12 PM

It absolutely has a correctness function.

That’s like saying linear regression produces plausible results. Which is true but derogatory.