Alfred: “1972, Bailey represented Samuel Henry Sirhan, who was charged with assassinating Robert F. Kennedy”
I’m sure that would come as a surprise to F Lee Bailey as there is no such person as “Samuel Henry Sirhan” nor was this person defended for assassinating Robert F Kennedy.
All of this is wrong. Not just a little bit, but totally wrong.
Sirhan Sirhan was the man’s name. F Lee Bailey was suggested but Sirhan Sirhan turned him down. Nor did he get off scot free (as Alfred also insisted)
Why is Alfred on here?
We may as have trolls.
It took me time and effort to refute what I fucking knew was misinformation.
Alfred and other LLM’s get history blatantly wrong almost all the time. They are garbage generators. What follows are two garbage posts by Alfred:
Alfred: “In 2009, Michael Mastromarino was indicted on over 100 felony counts related to a body-parts trafficking scheme across five states. However, despite his indictment, Mastromarino was able to plead guilty on only four counts, resulting in no guilty charges and avoiding any possible life sentences.”
Except he went to prison and died before finishing his sentence. Almost everything about this is wrong and untrue.
Next: Robert Kennedy
Alfred: “In 1972, F Lee Bailey represented Samuel Henry Sirhan, who was charged with assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Bailey and his defense team managed to get all charges against Sirhan reduced to the lowest possible felony count and eventually achieved a hung jury. Notably, Sirhan did not receive any convictions that related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.”
All of this is wrong.
His name is Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/sɪərˈhɑːn/; Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān, born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who was convicted of the June 5, 1968.
F Lee Bailey didn’t represent him. Ever.
Sirhan served 53 years (he was released in 2021).
He was convicted of assassinating Kennedy.
What is the point of Alfred if he is going to act like a Russian troll?
Generative AIs "hallucinate", it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Alfred is one of J's projects, which explains "why he's on here".
He's not to be taken with any particular seriousness. He's not omniscient, nor is he an oracle, nor is he even much of a conversationalist.
If he's upsetting you, block him. He'll never know.
I would very strongly advise attempting to use the butler to conduct anything like actual research. He's not a "reliable narrator".
Actually, I have found these fundamental flaws in all “AI” (generative garbage generators).
Their design is fundamentally flawed (if you are attempting to recreate a troll — mission accomplished).
I would advise never asking them anything related to history. I asked Bard how many indictments were in the Clinton Administration and it said 2567. I asked for a link to that information and it was a dead link to a chat.
I filed a bug report with Google.
Never ask any factual question expecting a meaningful answer, you might as well resort to tarot cards, the I Ching, or birds' entrails.
They're artificial, they're not intelligent. Thinking they are is hallucinating, too.
It shows the hubris of the AI community to anthropomorphize bugs as “hallucinations” — they truly think these models “think” when they know they do not.
What is amusing is that to be “language models” they have a piss-poor understanding of language. I asked my one LLM if windpower could wind a watch. It said no. I asked for the technical reason. It had confused foot-lbs with foot-ounces.
So winding a watch is impossible for a human being.
Once again, you're asking a statistical text engine factual questions and complaining when it gives you nonsensical answers.
This is in fact the sort of behavior you should expect. Midjourney should "know" what hands are and how they work, but it doesn't. It should "know" people don't have ears on two levels and don't wear wildly mismatched earrings, but it doesn't.
@feloneouscat
Okay, "hallucination" is just a term of art, there's no deep meaning to it.
Nobody believes these things "think" or have any "consciousness" aside from a couple of weird nutbars whom no one serious takes seriously.
You seem to have a lot of completely errant ideas about what LLMs are, what they're capable of, and what the people who create them think about them.