"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."

@Natasha_Jay No. What. I’m shocked.

@Natasha_Jay This part in the original post is fantastic:

“The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation.”

hxxps://www.reddit.com/r/analytics/comments/1r4dsq2/we_just_found_out_our_ai_has_been_making_up/

@Epic_Null @Natasha_Jay That's bad, but honestly--switching to a new system without ever double checking anything?

Everyone involved should be fired, including the #AI

@Natasha_Jay I didn't think the leopards would falsify MY data!

@Natasha_Jay if it had no tool to even get said data to begin with, it's even funnier

@cmthiede @Natasha_Jay You get no more than what you pay for. In this case, probably less.

@Natasha_Jay It sounds a lot like a baseball analytics department full of charlatans working for an easy mark.

@Natasha_Jay

I think it is safe to say that we have achieved the heat death of the Internet

@Natasha_Jay if the shareholders want to see big numbers it's just better to give them the big numbers /jk

@Natasha_Jay grounded human will be needed for oversight for quiet some time

@dropbear @Natasha_Jay

SHOCKED I TELL YOU

@Natasha_Jay "Here's what a functional company's numbers would look like"

Unfortunately, these are not *your* company's numbers

@Natasha_Jay This offers a glimmer of hope that the managerial class may self-destruct without doing too much more damage to the rest of us.

@Powerfromspace1 @Natasha_Jay you're so close to getting it

@dropbear @Natasha_Jay

By the way, always delighted to see what is to my understanding a classic prank Auzzies play on tourists

@Natasha_Jay @wendynather the "making up plausible shit" machine once again made up plausible shit, continually surprising everyone

@Natasha_Jay

Source is here for anyone interested in it

https://www.reddit.com/r/analytics/comments/1r4dsq2/we_just_found_out_our_ai_has_been_making_up/

@ferrix @Natasha_Jay @wendynather "Making up plausible shit" is a human consultant's job! AI is going to replace us!

@Natasha_Jay

No one should be surprised.

It is mathematically impossible to stop an LLM from “hallucinating” because “hallucinating” is what LLMs are doing 100% of the time.

It’s only human beings who distinguish (ideally) between correct and incorrect synthetic text.

And yet, it’s like forbidden candy to a child. Even well educated, thoughtful people so desperately want to believe that this tech “works”

@maccruiskeen @Natasha_Jay @wendynather MUPSaaS