Perry Gorelik
@perrygorelik.bsky.social
Graphic Designer | Accessibility Specialist | Family Man | He/Him | Opinions are my own | Maryland
Reposted by Perry Gorelik
QUESTION: When you are reading a text and you come across a footnote number or symbol, do you:
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
July 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
QUESTION: When you are reading a text and you come across a footnote number or symbol, do you:
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
QUESTION: When you are reading a text and you come across a footnote number or symbol, do you:
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
July 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
QUESTION: When you are reading a text and you come across a footnote number or symbol, do you:
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
A) go directly to the corresponding footnote text and read it before returning, or
B) wait until the end of the paragraph or page to read the relevant footnote text?
Reposted by Perry Gorelik
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
