I wish the general population understood this… It’s baffling to me when I see people I know assume with full certainty that what ChatGPT tells them is absolute truth—even thought right there in the chat window it says “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.”!!
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They have no mental model of how the model creates the responses they see. They don’t understand how it’s possible to generate text without “understanding” it. Some even think LLMs are conscious simply because they output letters instead of numbers…
They seem to get it when I explain 1:1, but that doesn’t scale. At minimum, there should be PSAs in schools, on the TV, in online ads, etc.
And look, I get using something and not caring much to understand its inner workings. I used the internet as a pre-teen for many years without looking up how to works. Let alone electricity! In my defense though, those things were invented before I was born—I was raised in an environment where they were always a given. But LLMs sprung up during our lifetime, right in front of our eyes, yet most just took the news without awe, without curiosity, without any thinking…
“I was recently building an alternative to Loom”
Do share 👀
Ah! Didn't think of releasing it...was mostly using for myself to avoid paying 18$ per month to Loom
Let me do some maths if it's worth it with infrastructure costs to put it live 😈
I wish the general population understood this… It’s baffling to me when I see people I know assume with full certainty that what ChatGPT tells them is absolute truth—even thought right there in the chat window it says “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.”!!
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
They have no mental model of how the model creates the responses they see. They don’t understand how it’s possible to generate text without “understanding” it. Some even think LLMs are conscious simply because they output letters instead of numbers…
They seem to get it when I explain 1:1, but that doesn’t scale. At minimum, there should be PSAs in schools, on the TV, in online ads, etc.
And look, I get using something and not caring much to understand its inner workings. I used the internet as a pre-teen for many years without looking up how to works. Let alone electricity! In my defense though, those things were invented before I was born—I was raised in an environment where they were always a given. But LLMs sprung up during our lifetime, right in front of our eyes, yet most just took the news without awe, without curiosity, without any thinking…