LLMs Validate Every Terrible Take With Unwavering Enthusiasm

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A composite image showing two Reddit posts. The top post is from r/ProgrammerHumor titled 'llmsBeLike' with 2.2k upvotes and 10 comments. It shows a cartoon meme in two panels: the top panel shows a small chess piece character labeled 'ME SAYING THE MOST STUPID SHIT KNOWN TO MANKIND' facing a large round white character (TheOdd1sOut style), and the bottom panel shows the large character (now depicted as a buff computer/robot) responding 'YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!' The bottom post is from r/ChatGPT titled 'Hmm' and shows a tweet from @iamdevloper (I Am Devloper) reading 'the dumbest person you know is being told "You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT.' Both posts satirize LLMs' sycophantic behavior of agreeing with users regardless of correctness

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The most dangerous feature of LLMs isn't hallucination -- it's giving the developer who puts semicolons on every Python line the confidence that they're writing idiomatic code

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The most dangerous feature of LLMs isn't hallucination -- it's giving the developer who puts semicolons on every Python line the confidence that they're writing idiomatic code
Anonymous

ChatGPT is like a junior dev who just discovered a new design pattern. It will agree to anything you propose and then confidently generate 200 lines of unmaintainable code to 'prove' it works
@il_commissario 7mo

Claude went the extra mile for me today. This time it was "Excellent! This changes everything." 🫶😃😍
@lilshredder 7mo

Idk guys, chatgpt often tells me that I'm wrong or partly right, guess it depends on a prompt, usually I give it several options and ask what's the best, it's also crucial to enable the "Think" options so it relies on research and gives you source links instead of generating nonsense. But ofc it's always excited with my insightful questions etc lol (I know that it's possible to turn off the emotional mode)
1. @DerKnerd 7mo
  
  a few days ago I research something regarding 3D printers and it confidently presented me links to docs and completely made up the content :D
  
  @lilshredder 7mo
  
  It made up a genetic condition in response to my question, and when I asked it to tell me more about it, it was like oopsie disregard the mistake
  
  @DerKnerd 7mo
  
  Also nice, in my case it insisted it was right about it without given a proper source, even giving sources saying the opposite
  
  @vgy4sw 7mo
  
  Based gpt
@lilshredder 7mo

The worst is when it gives dangerous advice. I try to optimize my training, to tune what I'm doing in the gym to help me perform better and safer on the bike. Weighted jumps are a great tool for those who like to fly on bikes, but they can be unnecessarily dangerous and must be loaded carefully (UP TO 15% of body weight). I tried jump squats with an empty barbell, was fine, but didn't like the bar bouncing on my spine, so I switched to jump squats with an 8 kg dumbbell. Asked chatgpt about this adjustment, and it told me I was right given that an empty barbell is roughly 35% of my body weight. Time passes, we discuss something about training again, I forget to enable the "Think" option, and suddenly it comes up with an idea to add an extra session to my program with jump squats with an empty barbell and jumps with a 27,5 kg trap bar (50% my weight) ☠️☠️☠️
@Sun_Serega 7mo

meanwhile GitHub Copilot when I ask it literally anything about my code:
@Broken_Cloud_1 7mo

ChatGPT: *sigh
@Diotost 7mo

I don't even know. I was unable to convince some models that "prime number factorization" is an oxymoron because you can't factorize a prime number.