what text are you reading that has a 0% error rate?

as I said, the text has a 0% error rate about the contents of the text, which is what the LLM is summarising, and to which it adds it’s own error rate. Then you read that and add your error rate.

the question is can we make a system that has an error rate that is close to or lower than a person’s

can we???

could you read and summarize 75 novels with a 0% error rate?

why… would I want that? I read novels because I like reading novels? I also think that on summaries LLMs are especially bad, since there is no distinction between “important” and “unimportant” in the architecture. The point of a summary is to only get the important points, so it clashes.

provide a page reference to all of the passages written in iambic pentameter?

no LLM can do this. LLMs are notoriously bad at doing any analysis of this kind of style element because of their architecture. why would you pick this example

Meanwhile an LLM could produce a summary, with citations generated and tracked by non-AI systems, with an error rate comparable to a human (assuming the human was given a few months to work on the problem) in seconds.

I still have not seen any evidence for this, and it still does not adress the point that the summary would be pretty much unreadable

The study of this in academia

you are linking to an arxiv preprint. I do not know these researchers. there is nothing that indicates to me that this source is any more credible than a blog post.

has found that LLM hallucination rate can be dropped to almost nothing

where? It doesn’t seem to be in this preprint, which is mostly a history of RAG and mentions hallucinations only as a problem affecting certain types of RAG more than other types. It makes some relative claims about accuracy that suggest including irrelevant data might make models more accurate. It doesn’t mention anything about “hallucination rate being dropped to almost nothing”.

(less than a human)

you know what has a 0% hallucination rate about the contents of a text? the text

You can see in the images I posted that it both answered the question and also correctly cited the source which was the entire point of contention.

this is anecdotal evidence, and also not the only point of contention. Another point was, for example, that ai text is horrible to read. I don’t think RAG(or any other tacked-on tool they’ve been trying for the past few years) fixes that.

see, the problem is that I am not going to be reading that text because I know it is unreliable and ai text makes my eyes glaze over, so I will be clicking on all those links until I find something that is reliable. On a search engine I can just click through every link or refine my search with something like site:reddit.com site:wikipedia.org or format:pdf or something similar. With a chatbot, I need to write out the entire question, look at the four or so links it provided and then reprompt it if it doesn’t contain what I’m looking for. I also get a limited amount of searches per day because I am not paying for a chatbot subscription. This is completely pointless to me.

good basilisk save us all. so they built a script for their chatbot that allows it to purchase more chatbots? seems like a great use of money. Also, what’s with the insanely placed emdashes? did conway write this for him or has his brain been rotted so much that he writes like an LLM? large parts seem human-written at least…

the screenshot is very very clearly LLM generated right? This is so insanely stupid

hate it when you are working on a major featue for the next release but tim keeps continvoucly morging

so I fail to see why I should be using an LLM at all then. If I am going to the webpages anyway, why shouldn’t I just use startpage/searx/yacy/whatever?

so we are using the “regular search which has always given you garbage” and taking that garbage automatically to get summarised by the hallucinator and we are supposed to trust the output somehow?

unfortunately, julia has been adding “agentic code” to their codebase for a while now.

bluemonday1984@awful.systems update: quokka reached out to me and apparently you had been banned on another instance for report abuse and that ban had synchronised to quokk.au. You should be unbanned now which means the next stubsack should federate again.

E: I do not know how tags work E2: why does that format to a mailto link?

OT: I tried switching away from my instance to quokk.au because it becomes harder and harder to justify being on a pro-ai instance, but it seems that your posts stopped federating recently. Which makes that a bit harder to do. Any clue why?

1. microblog site ✅
2. funny image (meme) ✅

my checks are all green boss

what about xxy? What about people with female sex characteristics but xy chromosomes? This seems stupid.

see, the problem with this is that no person on earth calls it “oat drink” or whatever. Oat milk is the accepted term. The etymology is only there to highlight how ridiculous the entire thing is.

just don’t ask for gender? let the player either design a sprite or pick one and pick pronouns or just refer to the player with they/them. Sex is only a fact insofar as the collection of bodily features we commonly refer to as sex exist. the reference to it is still a social choice, and we could’ve just as easily picked another group of features, or none at all.

it does smell really good tho

yes.

from wikipedia:

Claire described non-consensual kissing and groping by Gaiman after meeting him at a book tour event, as well as a $60,000 payment from Gaiman to her in August 2022.[176] A woman identified as “K”, who also first met Gaiman at a book signing, said that during their relationship he subjected her to painful sex that she “neither wanted nor enjoyed”.[21][177]

Scarlett Pavlovich, a former nanny for Gaiman and Palmer’s child, alleges that Gaiman sexually assaulted her within hours of their first meeting in February 2022.[177] Pavlovich recalled that he said, “Amanda told me I couldn’t have you” after the assault; according to one of Palmer’s friends, Palmer had previously told Gaiman, “You could really hurt this person and break her; keep your hands off of her”. Pavlovich said that Gaiman had anal sex with her in the presence of his son.[21]

Caroline Wallner, a former tenant of Gaiman’s, alleges that he demanded sexual favours in exchange for being allowed to continue living on his property.[21][178] Wallner says that on one occasion, Gaiman grabbed her hand and placed it on his penis while his young son was asleep in the same bed.[21] In 2021, Wallner, her ex-husband, and Gaiman signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), and Gaiman paid Wallner $275,000. In early 2025, Gaiman and Wallner both requested arbitration, the dispute resolution method mandated by the NDA, each accusing the other of violating the agreement.[179]

The writer Julia Hobsbawm accused Gaiman of “an aggressive, unwanted pass” and described how Gaiman pushed her onto a sofa and French kissed her in 1986.[178][180]

and something that made it really fucking obvious, if it wasn’t already:

In a blog post responding to coverage of the allegations against him, Gaiman said there were “moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t”.

he doesn’t even fucking try to deny it

E: something else that pisses me off is this part:

Gaiman has denied engaging in non-consensual sex, and dismissed Hobsbawm’s allegations as misreading the situation.[178][180]

If she says he sexually assaulted her and he says she fucking misread the situation, then he sexually assaulted her. are you fucking kidding me. the most good-faith interpretation is that he misread the situation an assaulted her without intending to do so, but given the track-record and the fact that he says that she misread the situation instead of being horrified at himself, I am willing to extend absolutely no good faith. </rant>

unfortunately Neil Gaiman is still alive and benefits directly from things like purchases, so no. You cannot mikufy an author who benefits.

Ok so I checked and it looks to be AI slop but I am not against the idea. Trading in some convenience for a little whimsy can be a good trade to make.