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[Zed Clampet]

@BeardyHat @Pifanjr zedllucination correction: I think I was specifically talking to you to when I had my zedllucination. I said that I thought the reason for LLM hallucinations was that there was a conflict between what they were designed to do and how they are being used. I said that they were designed to run simulations.

Well, actually: Earlier AI had been designed for simulations, but, according to CoPilot, the purpose of the LLM's was to create an Artificial General Intelligence. Even as of only a year or so ago, the AI folks believed that if they just kept feeding LLM's training data that they would eventually be AGIs. All hope for that has been lost.

So why do hallucinations occur? Don't know. All I have is the traditional answer, which everyone knows, which is that they don't know anything. They are just selecting the next language token based on the internal logic they developed while training. I have problems with this explanation, but the people who espouse this actually know what they are talking about, so I'll keep my theory to myself rather than switching on Auto-Idiot (TM) and typing away as usual.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Frindis @Colif and other people interested in the absolute best blocker:

Google despises Ublock Origin and completely redid parts of its code in order to get rid of it. There are "lite" versions available for Chrome, but it isn't nearly as robust as it used to be.

Please note that there are fake versions of Ublock out there. If websites are still asking you to turn off your ad block, then either you don't have the real Ublock or you have a version that's been dumbed down to work with the new Chrome.

The browsers that fully support Ulbock are Firefox and Brave. Edge and Opera still fully support it, but the assumption is that they will stop support soon.

 

[Colif]

Firefox is the obvious choice as all Chromium based browsers will eventually break them. Firefox also lets you pick which AI you want to use... I just ignored the choice so I don't have any helpers... oh no, what will I do?

I haven't tried Brave so cannot comment. Future of Firefox is unclear, hope they keep surviving as I would hate to have to stop using internet completely.

Chrome should be taken off Google and made into its own company completely apart from the Advertising business. Then they might not hate Ublock as much... but now, they sell advertising and obviously hate adblockers for that very reason. How dare people use the free internet and not see their ads... or let us track peoples habits.