Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Thank god for comments like this. I find it truly disturbing how much people are treating LLMs like fact-machines. They are pattern matching machines that match using whatever information they have that matches best.

It's closer to improv jazz than to factual authority; still super wonderful, and worthwhile listening to, but not really for the purpose of learning how the original sounded when it was first recorded. Sure, you might get a sense of the original, but that's all it is: an impression. When you ask for facts, you get an impressionist render of facts, which sometimes, maybe even often times, accurately depict the Truth. But sometimes they depict the Truth the way an artist depicts the truth: if it feels right, it's right.



Actually I got it from Google search, so you might have done a little fact checking yourself, before launching into your LLM speech.

This is the top Google search result for "largest solar farm".

"The 15 largest solar farms in the world 2024"

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-panels/biggest-solar-f...

Another top result for Solar Star is this:

https://8billiontrees.com/solar-panels/largest-solar-farm/

Which indicates (correctly or not) a current capacity of 314MW for Solar Star 1 (still less than the 1GW needed for Zuckerberg's projected SOTA data center).


I think the 58MW claim is so blatantly wrong that it’s not LLM that produced that „fact”.

I discussed various climate related things with chatgpt and it doesn’t make such crazy mistakes.


Correct - it's from the "Top 5 Largest Solar Power Plants in the World (2024)" web site, which is Google's #1 search result for "biggest solar farm".

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-panels/biggest-solar-f...

The WikiPedia page for Solar Star indicates a capacity of 579MW, which may have been mis-parsed by a human as 57.9MW?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Star


Jazz facts




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: