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The hallmark of an LLM response: plausible sounding, but if you dig deeper, incorrect

[hirvi74]

Do you think a human response is much better? It would be foolish to blindly trust what comes out of the mouths of biological LLMs too -- regardless of credentials.

[mkipper]

I’m incredibly confident that any professor of aerospace engineering would give a better response. Is it common for people with PhDs to fall for basic misconceptions in their field?

This seems like a reasonable standard to hold GPT-5 to given the way it’s being marketed. Nobody would care if OpenAI compared it to an enthusiastic high school student with a few hours to poke around Google and come up with an answer.

[skydhash]

All science books and papers (pre-LLMs) were written by people. They got us to the moon and brought us the plane and the computer and many other things.