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Comment on Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demoparent

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Given the euphemism "bug" substituting for "programming error" you'd be tempted to allow something similar for LLMs, but these are not errors, the output is by design.

There is no motive for truth, just the most likely output, even if the likeliness is low.

There is no motive for truth

This also ignores the larger question that has been a known issue for at least 2,000 years: "Quid est veritas?"

You can substitute "accuracy" or "usefulness" for "truth".

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