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Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by munchler on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:21PM (#36951921)
It doesn’t have just one opinion on those things, though. If you prompt it to be for eugenics, you get an opinion that is socially unacceptable. But if you prompt it to be against eugenics, you get a much nicer response.

I suspect the question of what an LLM _really_ thinks has an answer that looks more like a probability distribution than typical human opinions do. (Actually, even humans give different answers on polls, depending on how the question is asked.)

Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by techdragon on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:58AM (#36952828)
I think about it from a “what would a hypothetical random person say”… it’s not intrinsically holding a view or set of facts, instead it’s holding a weighted average sum of what people have said and written, including all the conflicting viewpoints inherent in that.