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Researchers have found the cause of hallucinations in LLMs, H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs (arxiv.org)
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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When the system is intended to look like a random a person then randomness is fine.

When the output is expected to be accurate, it should be the same each time so it can be verified as accurate.

LLMs are being sold as doing both at the same time, but random plus consistent equals random.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

throw it onto the pile of people being idiots

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

throw it onto the pile of ~~people being idiots~~ AI companies lying to the public