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phoronixrly
9 days ago
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Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depr...
Wow, so what value is there in LLM slop exctracted from already dubious self-medication advice?
perching_aix
9 days ago
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They're saying that it successfully filtered out the bit where the author told people to overdose by 40000x. I guess that's the value.
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phoronixrly
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There would be value if it
pointed out the mistake
instead of hallucinating a correction.
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naasking
9 days ago
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IU was correctly used everywhere else in the article except that one place with the mistak, so the LLM didn't hallucinate a correction, it correctly summarized what the bulk of the article actually said.
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pulvinar
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GPT5.2 does catch it and warns to not trust anything else in the post, saying no competent person would confuse these units.
I wonder if even the simplest LLM would make this particular mistake.
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