alt Hacker News> That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of "good and bad", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast.
After paticipating in social media since the beginning I think this problem is not limited to LLMs.
There are certain things we can debunk all day every day and the only outcome isit happens again next day and this has been a problem since long before AI - and I personally think it started before social media as well.
> After paticipating in social media since the beginning I think this problem is not limited to LLMs.
Yup, but for LLMs the problem is worse... many more people trust LLMs and their output much more than they trust Infowars. And with basic media literacy education, you can fix people trusting bad sources... but you fundamentally can't fix an LLM, it cannot use preexisting knowledge (e.g. "Infowars = untrustworthy") or cues (domain recently registered, no imprint, bad English) on its own, neither during training nor during inference.