this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
756 points (99.1% liked)
Fuck AI
6613 readers
1490 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Is this necessarily true? I remember seeing an article a while back suggesting that prompting "do not hallucinate" is enough to meaningfully reduce the risk of hallucinations in the output.
From my fairly superficial understanding of how LLMs work, "don't do X" will plot a completely different vector for the "X" semantic dimension than prompting "do X". This is different to telling a human, for example, to not think about elephants (congratulations, you're now thinking about elephants. Aren't they cute. Look at that little trunk and smiley mouth)
Thank you for your reply. I realised I don’t have enough deep knowledge about LLMs apart from empirical experience from working with it to confidently answer your question. It would be interesting to find (or create if it doesn’t exist) more research on the subject.
dont think about the game, or else you will lose it
The only comfort I take from your reply is that you lost a little bit before me
GODDAMIT