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Tried out the new and popular “Deepseek” LLM with my standard “tell me facts about the author of PCalc” query. At least half were misleading or straight up hallucinations. LLMs are not a suitable technology for looking up facts, and anybody who tells you otherwise is… probably trying to sell you a LLM.

@jamesthomson oh oh oh does it know of me? I need to know what tales it thinks it knows.

James Thomson

@NanoRaptor
You do dinosaur comics, apparently! So you are… Ryan North?

@jamesthomson oh my! That’s at least a completely new one!

@NanoRaptor @jamesthomson Maybe the AI just knows your true calling before you do!

@jamesthomson @NanoRaptor Friends don't out friends secret identities ;)

@jamesthomson tell me five facts about…
Here are 10 facts…
All hallucinated

@jamesthomson I did not remember until this morning but I did once do one!