>the model said that’s pure fiction.

Were you expecting your model to be updated on current events? Why?

Also the specific event you are referring to is a statistically very improbable event, prior to its actually happening.

>It only acquiesced when I specifically directed it to check Reuters.

Do all models do this? They check in with Reuters? Why would a model think that you asking about an extremely improbable event warranted reaching out to Reuters?

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gjskngnf an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I was not expecting model weights to be updated on current events.

It’s clearly warranted because a model that trusts its weights on current events will give an outdated answer. Extremely improbable events happen all the time.

	▲	xienze 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think the models are trying to optimistically avoid doing web searches, because they're surprisingly a lot harder to do well than you'd think.

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mywittyname an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

He asked it to double check. It's reasonable to expect the LLM to handle that trivial task.