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Doesn't this also happen in humans? I think a lot of people think that seahorse emoji exists, or think that it existed in the past (Mandela effect).

This is an interesting case of "something should exist", but doesn't.

Tinfoil hat: maybe it actually existed, and we switched to a different timeline where it doesn't, but LLMs have captured it from the past.




Humans make mistakes because we can’t know everything. Or don’t fact check etc.

LLMs make mistakes because they were trained on the entire knowledge of the internet and thus should know everything?

Why are you comparing this to a human?


Because it seems that LLMs have copied human behavior in this case, thinking that seahorse emoji exists, when it doesn't.



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