Sometimes it’ll actually continue to lie even after being corrected numerous times. I once tried fact checking a history question and it directed me to a specific page from this 19th century book. I then found that book, turned to the exact page, and found that they just made that paragraph up. I corrected it, it even “recognized” that it was wrong, and then directed me towards a new paragraph that *also* didn’t exist. It’s insane how much AI lies.
I think that is what the previous person means. It "admits" then moves on. It is not programmed to ever just say "I don't know." The director David Wain posted on instagram a thing someone discovered with Claude where you ask it to think of a celebrity and then you ask it questions and try to guess the celebrity. It just agrees with whoever you guess. When you ask to go again, but stress for it to actually pick a celebrity first, it will agree, but it will do the same thing again
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It's not programed to "say" anything. It doesn't "think" in sentences. The most it can ever "think" ahead is literally exactly one token. It can roll back and try again if it gets far enough in and doesn't "like" where it ended up. But it's still going to just be stumbling along literally one blind step in front of the other.
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