Post #1802972
2026-04-09 12:57 UTC
@pbloem @ngaylinn I’m with Peter here in as much as I think there are two different things frequently being run together in ways the Tufecki quote exemplifies: the obvious limitations and problems in LLMs with respect to reliable output (see Nate’s list) and an epistemological assumption about humans that somehow truthfulness and truth maintenance rest on some obvious (but completely unelucidated) internal human design feature that LLMs lack.
It’s that latter epistemological assumption about humans that seems problematic to me.
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@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org 2026-04-09 13:05
@pbloem @ngaylinn or to put it differently “fact checking” is not an agent internal process in the first place and Tufecki’s quote seems to indicate confusion between agent internal processes for coming up with a putative answer with the raft of external tools and actions we have for checking or maintaining ‘truth’