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thrownthatwayyesterday at 11:52 AM1 replyview on HN

> minor changes in a question can get conflicting answers from even the best models

Humans are notorious for doing this.


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acdhayesterday at 6:28 PM

Not unless you’re referring to significant mental illness, no. Individual people may vary if, say, I ask for health advice but if I ask the same doctor they’re not going to flip the answer based on whether I use medical or wellness influencer phrasings — and that allows them to build a reputation which other people can rely on.

This especially applies to mistakes: the junior developer who drops a database by mistake is unlikely to ever do that again, whereas the same AI companies models keep doing that to a small but non-zero number of customers because they don’t have that higher level learning process or anything like fear of consequences.