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Re:Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] by habitue on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:41AM (#38086574)
Also LLMs have kind of made this prank moot, lol
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Re:Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] by mikepurvis on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:07PM (#38087026)
An LLM can't tell you what you had for lunch or what will be on the math test this afternoon though.
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Re:Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] by krisoft on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:32PM (#38087446)
> or what will be on the math test this afternoon though.

Neither can this prank?

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Re:Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] by mikepurvis on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @01:56PM (#38088781)
Fair, but you could pretend— then again, so could an LLM, as the sibling points out.
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Re:Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] by autoexec on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:28PM (#38087385)
An LLM might confidently tell you those kinds of things, it will just probably be wrong.
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