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[–] da_hooman_husky@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

There are absolutely people that believe if you tell ChatGPT not to make mistakes that the output is more accurate 😩.. it’s things like this where I kinda hate what Apple and Steve Jobs did by making tech more accessible to the masses

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you can get it to output better math by telling it to take a breathe first. It's stupid but LLMS got trained on human data, so it's only fair that it mimics human output

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

breathe

Not to be rude, this is only an observation as an ESL. Just yesterday, someone wrote "I can't breath". Are these two spellings switching places now? I'm seeing it more often.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No, it's just a very common mistake. You're right, it's supposed to be the other way around ("breath" is the noun, "breathe" is the verb.)

English spelling is confusing for native speakers, too.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Whilst I’ve avoided LLMs mostly so far, seems like that should actually work a bit. LLMs are imitating us, and if you warn a human to be extra careful they will try to be more careful (usually), so an llm should have internalised that behaviour. That doesn’t mean they’ll be much more accurate though. Maybe they’d be less likely to output humanlike mistakes on purpose? Wouldn’t help much with llm-like mistakes that they’re making all on their own though.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 minutes ago

You are absolutely correct and 10 seconds of Google searching will show that this is the case.

You get a small boost by asking it to be careful or telling it that it's an expert in the subject matter. on the "thinking" models they can even chain together post review steps.