Regardless of the duplication, I don’t see how yet another random internet poster not understanding LLM hallucinations is news. You’ll probably find dozens of instances of this kind of post every single hour. (But 100 HN commenters in the other thread seem to disagree, so what do I know.)
I personally find examples of people fundamentally misunderstanding LLMs and misusing them in new and novel ways interesting. Eventually, it will probably be an everyday occurrence, but for now it's still percolating into different areas.
This person summarizes how I feel about it:
> If not malicious, then this shows that there are people out there who don't quite know how much to rely on LLMs or understand the limits of their capabilities. It's distressing.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 20.1 ms ] threadI personally find examples of people fundamentally misunderstanding LLMs and misusing them in new and novel ways interesting. Eventually, it will probably be an everyday occurrence, but for now it's still percolating into different areas.
This person summarizes how I feel about it:
> If not malicious, then this shows that there are people out there who don't quite know how much to rely on LLMs or understand the limits of their capabilities. It's distressing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904674
This was someone who thought that Bard had leaked embargoed (at the time) vulnerability information prior to it being publicly disclosed/patched.