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[-] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's true, but they're also pretty good at verifying stuff as an independent task too.

You can give them a "fact" and say "is this true, misleading or false" and it'll do a good job. ChatGPT 4.0 in particular is excellent at this.

Basically whenever I use it to generate anything factual, I then put the output back into a separate chat instance and ask it to verify each sentence (I ask it to put tags around each sentence so the misleading and false ones are coloured orange and red).

It's a two-pass solution, but it makes it a lot more reliable.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

It's a two-pass solution, but it makes it a lot more reliable.

So your technique to "make it a lot more reliable" is to ask an LLM a question, then run the LLM's answer through an equally unreliable LLM to "verify" the answer?

We're so doomed.

[-] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Give it a try.

The key is in the different prompts. I don't think I should really have to explain this, but different prompts produce different results.

Ask it to create something, it creates something.

Ask it to check something, it checks something.

Is it flawless? No. But it's pretty reliable.

It's literally free to try it now, using ChatGPT.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I don't think I should really have to explain this, but different prompts produce different results.

Ron Swanson saying "I know more thab you" to a home improvement store employee

[-] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hey, maybe you do.

But I'm not arguing anything contentious here. Everything I've said is easily testable and verifiable.

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