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brabel • today at 7:29 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

How do you trust a human? Are humans infallible, or at least better than AI at explaining things? I known my answer.


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Diti • today at 7:32 AM

I trust the Emacs contributors, the actual experts in the topic, to fact-check their own answers, because they are incentivized for doing so (reputation). They are also able to tell when they aren’t sure about a particular topic.

GPT-based LLMs, by design, cannot. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746