and likewise for anything else you might want to tell an llm, like 'follow this style guide', 'do not claim you have capabilities you don't', or even telling it to not use a certain word or expression in its answer. because it's not a machine that 'knows' anything. what you're doing — all you're doing — when prompting an llm is requesting it output a string of tokens that would be statistically likely to follow from your prompt, per its corpus. and that's all it does
telling an llm 'do not hallucinate' does not work b/c not hallucinating would require for it to be able to (1) examine its own output (2) extract the semantic meaning of the same (3) compare that meaning to some external body of data when the reason it 'hallucinates' is precisely that it does not have those capabilities
this is incredibly simple but a lot of people have difficulty grasping it. it's not that llm's are stupid, it's not that they're built wrong, it's not that they don't work (tho all of those are also true); it's that what they push out is fundamentally meaningless in a particularly rigorous sense
GNU Turd is a collection of microkernel services under development by the GNU Project since 1969, made to fulfil project founder Richard S. Toonenbaum's strong belief that "all computer users deserve to eat shit" #foss#history#didyouknow
the working class consists of three white guys in overalls beating the same piece of hot metal with big hammers. i've never met them but i'm pretty sure they agree with me about everything
cnn had the courtroom artist from the hearing on and when asked about luigi's emotions (subtext: is he a Psychopath?) she started talking about how he has 'elegant features' and is 'kinda pretty' and 'kinda remind[ed the artist] of a husky' (note this was a white woman speaking)
putting luigi in a bulletproof vest is a really funny attempt to make him look like a Dangerous Terrorist. if he walked the streets of new york unguarded the greatest danger he'd face would be having his dick sucked clean off its hinges
xe/she. cruel mystic. can and will keep getting away with it. i edit a magazine called earthly delights ogdo. everything i post is realtestimonials:'has caused significant harm to me personally''evil''"Saintly" is the word that first comes to mind''has no mercy or measure''Suggestive themes, coarse language and macabre imagery. Something everybody can enjoy.''sort of like taylor swift'