April fools bring May hallucinations
We recorded 2 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 1 more is held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (2)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“An LLM just spits back (sometimes in transmogrified form) what it has read.”
What we tested: An LLM just spits back what it has read, sometimes in transmogrified form.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“Humans are (usually, if well-motivated) smart enough to sort things like jokes and fiction from reality, but current AI doesn’t have a clue.”
What we tested: Current AI systems cannot tell jokes and fiction apart from reality, while well-motivated humans usually can.
Held from this post (1)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: Current AI only absorbs and mimics data and never reflects critically on it.