"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay if it had no tool to even get said data to begin with, it's even funnier
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@Natasha_Jay you get what you pay for
@cmthiede @Natasha_Jay You get no more than what you pay for. In this case, probably less.
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay It sounds a lot like a baseball analytics department full of charlatans working for an easy mark.
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
I think it is safe to say that we have achieved the heat death of the Internet
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay if the shareholders want to see big numbers it's just better to give them the big numbers /jk
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay grounded human will be needed for oversight for quiet some time
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SHOCKED I TELL YOU
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay "Here's what a functional company's numbers would look like"
Unfortunately, these are not *your* company's numbers
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay This offers a glimmer of hope that the managerial class may self-destruct without doing too much more damage to the rest of us.
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@Natasha_Jay grounded human will be needed for oversight for quiet some time
@Powerfromspace1 @Natasha_Jay you're so close to getting it
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By the way, always delighted to see what is to my understanding a classic prank Auzzies play on tourists
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay @wendynather the "making up plausible shit" machine once again made up plausible shit, continually surprising everyone
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
Source is here for anyone interested in it
https://www.reddit.com/r/analytics/comments/1r4dsq2/we_just_found_out_our_ai_has_been_making_up/
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@Natasha_Jay @wendynather the "making up plausible shit" machine once again made up plausible shit, continually surprising everyone
@ferrix @Natasha_Jay @wendynather "Making up plausible shit" is a human consultant's job! AI is going to replace us!
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
No one should be surprised.
It is mathematically impossible to stop an LLM from “hallucinating” because “hallucinating” is what LLMs are doing 100% of the time.
It’s only human beings who distinguish (ideally) between correct and incorrect synthetic text.
And yet, it’s like forbidden candy to a child. Even well educated, thoughtful people so desperately want to believe that this tech “works”
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@ferrix @Natasha_Jay @wendynather "Making up plausible shit" is a human consultant's job! AI is going to replace us!
@maccruiskeen @Natasha_Jay @wendynather MUPSaaS
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
@Natasha_Jay "To an artificial mind, all reality is virtual."
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@Natasha_Jay I suspect that one of the few applications where a heavily hallucinating LLM can outperform a human would be in replacing board members, C-suite executives, and their direct reports. I propose a longitudinal study with a control group of high level executives using real data, and experimental group using hallucinated, or maybe even totally random data filtered into plausible ranges, using executive compensation deltas as the metric.
Remember who funds Ai.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-elon-musks-24b-ai-startuphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
Disaster Capitalists -- they want another bubble bursting that sends another generation of wealth upwards to the 1%
Global financial crashes & mass dissatisfaction provides the makings for fascist movements & profitable imperialist wars of extraction.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09/03/austerity-is-the-midwife-of-fascism/
https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-next-financial-crisis-is-unavoidable-and-american/
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/economy-and-ecology/what-will-it-take-to-beat-the-far-right-8599/
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
Hallucinating numbers, you say?
It must be learning from the current American administration..
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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
