My students are often surprised to learn that LLMs aren’t answering their questions. Rather, an LLM answers the question “what would a reply to this look like?” It’s one of the first things I explain in the “Should I use LLMs?” portion of my syllabus.

but isnt that the same with (some) Humans ?

@ulli @mcnees The problem is people tend to trust LLM answers uncritically. Not usually so with most human responses.

(Well, with the exception of current american politics…)