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		2muchcoffeeman 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? 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?

Geee 11 days ago [–]

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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