A “reasoning AI” is a large language model — a chatbot — that gives you a list of steps it took to reach a conclusion. Or a list of steps it says it took. LLMs don’t know what a fact is — they just…
  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why would the steps be literal when everything else is bullshit? Obviously the ‘reasoning’ steps are AI slop too.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s bullshitting. That’s the word. Bullshitting is saying things without a care for how true they are.

      • antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s kind of a distinction without much discriminatory power: LLMs are a tool created to ease the task of bullshitting; used to produce bullshit by bullshitters.