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But planes don't routinely spit out false information.
I understand what you mean, but... looks at Birgenair 301 and Aeroperu 603 looks at Qantas 72 looks at the 737 Max 8 crashes Planes have spat out false data, and in of the 5 cases mentioned, only one avoided disaster.
It is down to the humans in the cockpits to filter through the data and know what can be trusted. Which could be similar to LLMs except cockpits have a two person team to catch errors and keep things safe.
So you found five examples in the history of human aviation, how often do you think AI hallucinates information? Because I can guarantee you its a hell of a lot more frequently than that.
You should check out Air Crash Investigation, amigo, all 26 seasons, you'd be surprised what humans in metal life support machines can cause when systems breakdown.
I'm not watching 26 seasons of a TV show ffs, I've got better things to do with my time. Skimming the IMBD though, I'm seeing a lot of different causes for the crashes, from bad weather, to machine failure, to running out of fuel, improper maintenance, pilot errors, etc. Remember, my point had nothing to do with mechanical failure. Any machine can fail. My point was that airplanes don't routinely spit out false information in the day-to-day function of the machine like AI does. You're getting into strawman territory mate.