The difference between a liar and a bullshitter

The Next Web
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Philosopher Harry Frankfurt distinguished liars, who know and hide the truth, from bullshitters, who disregard truth entirely and aim only to impress. Large language models (LLMs) like those in AI do not know truth but generate text based on learned patterns, making them akin to bullshitters rather than liars.

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