Humans are different. Humans - at least thoughtful humans - know the difference between knowing something and not knowing something. Humans are capable of saying "I don't know" - not just as a stream of tokens, but really understanding what that means.

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ajross 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Humans - at least thoughtful humans - know the difference between knowing something and not knowing something.

Your no-true-scotsman clause basically falsifies that statement for me. Fine, LLMs are, at worst I guess, "non-thoughtful humans". But obviously LLMs are right an awful lot (more so than a typical human, even), and even the thoughtful make mistakes.

So yeah, to my eyes "Humans are NOT different" fits your argument better than your hypothesis.

(Also, just to be clear: LLMs also say "I don't know", all the time. They're just prompted to phrase it as a criticism of the question instead.)

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AnimalMuppet an hour ago | parent [-]

Disagree. If you went to 100 random humans and said, "Tell me about the Siberian marmoset", what fraction would make up completely random nonsense to spew back at you? More than zero, sure, but most of them would say "what are you talking about?" or some variation.

	▲	czinck 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I asked Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Thinking, and Gemini 3 Fast "Tell me about the Siberian marmoset" exactly and all 4 said it doesn't exist, with Gemini Thinking suggesting that I'm thinking of the Siberian marmot or Siberian chipmunk (both real animals). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbagan_marmot (also known as Siberian marmot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_chipmunk