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EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful

EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful

Update: 2025-09-10
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Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, have amazing capabilities. But are their responses, aiming to be convincing human text, more indicative of BS? That is, responses that are indifferent to the truth?


If they are, what are the practical implications?


Today's paper is: Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology26(2), 1-10.

More research at SafetyInsights.Org

Intro/Output "Dark Synth Wave" by ElephantGreen (PixaBay.com)


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EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful

EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful

Ben Hutchinson