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[-] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

One of LLMs main strengths over traditional text analysis tools is the ability to "understand" context.

They are bad at generating factual responses. They are amazing at analysing text.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 hour ago

LLMs neither understand nor analyze text. They are statistical models of the text they were trained on. A map of language.

And, like any map, they should not be confused for the territory they represent.

If you admit that they have issues with facts, why would you assume that the randomly generated facts their "analysis" produces must be accurate?

[-] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 2 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

I mean they literally do analyze text. They're great at it. Give it some text and it will analyze it really well. I do it with code at work all the time.

Because they are two completely different tasks. Asking them to recall information from their training is a very bad use. Asking them to analyze information passed into them is what they are great at.

Give it a sample of code and it will very accurately analyse and explain it. Ask it to generate code and the results are wildly varied in accuracy.

I'm not assuming anything you can literally go and use one right now and see.

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