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Then it should say so instead of attempting and failing at the one thing computers are supposed to be better than us at
Well, if I try to use Photoshop to calculate a polynomial it's not gonna work all that well either, right tool for the job and all.
The fact that LLMs are terrible at knowing what they don't know should be well known by now (ironically).
And if Photoshop had a way to ask it for such, it'd be a mistake.
Gpt thinking it knows something and hallucinating is ultimatelya bug, not a feature, no matter what the apologists say