[FRIAM] Confabulation and other acts of bad-faith

[steve smith]

On 4/6/25 6:54 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> With Grok, there would be terabytes of X garbage (and non-garbage) 
> used for training material.   Meta used LibGen, which is 7.5 million 
> books and 81 million research papers.  Among these books are many math 
> textbooks.   What’s fascinating to me is that ChatGPT will say, “No, 
> that’s not correct” in response to a technical proposition, but for 
> other topics it will riff in indefinite and complex ways in response 
> to complex queries.   This makes sense from a business perspective: 
>  Technical users won’t use these services if the answers don’t speed 
> their work along.   On the other hand, if conversation is the user’s 
> goal, it makes sense to keep riffing but without challenging the user 
> too much.
>
yes, the difference between a "bar friend" and a new colleague at a tech 
conference...  both can be collegial and conversational but the latter 
is more likely to insist on significant technical seriousness.   The bar 
friend may well have their own "standards" but are more idiosyncratic to 
their personal hangups and while they may want to be "right" in any 
given moment, they also want to continue the conversation (if not with 
you, then the person on their other side?)


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