Re:Ask HN: Where can I find an active help community for Ngi...
by gumballindie on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @05:07AM
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Contrary to what openai shills and paid advertisers claim chatgpt fails often. “Hallucinations” are an euphemism for low quality content.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I find an active help community for Ngi...
by hammyhavoc on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:47AM
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In this specific scenario, it isn't so much the quality (a valid config), it's literally adding URL rewrites that do nothing because they are unnecessary and don't exist in the documentation, it also not infrequently modified them, meaning that it wasn't what I'd given it.
Not being able to do simplistic tasks like this really makes me doubt the claims of others, either that or what they're doing is complete shite and they don't even know it's shite. IMO, it seems likely that there's a lot of highly inappropriate hires who are actually outdone by an LLM, which says more about them than the LLM. It's a very low bar.
With all the hype of people saying they were using it for dev, I wanted it to give me a valid NGINX config that included specific URL rewrites. I gave it the original Apache .htaccess file, the documentation, and the URL rewrites it would require.
Despite endlessly correcting it, trying many, many, many different prompts, I still couldn't get it to stop hallucinating. That's what LLMs do.
Eventually I just did it myself, took 2 minutes. I can only conclude that most people's Dunning-Kruger complex prevents them from knowing when the LLM is wrong. I will say that every config file it output looked convincing with a cursory glance, but they were generally non-functional and full of hallucinations.
In terms of communities, can't help you there, sorry. It's oddly niche.