UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDid ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.cointelegraph.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1636arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1614arrow-down1external-linkDid ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.cointelegraph.comUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoBut that doesn’t confirm or deny that Trumps formula came from ChatGPT, they could both be drawing from some other source.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 day agoYou can generally toggle LLM “grounding” features, aka inserting web searches into their context. Modern LLMs have a information “cutoff” of a few months ago, at the latest, so the base models will have zero awareness of this formula.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoUnless the formula came from something that already existed that both Trumps people and these models are referencing to come up with the same number.
But that doesn’t confirm or deny that Trumps formula came from ChatGPT, they could both be drawing from some other source.
You can generally toggle LLM “grounding” features, aka inserting web searches into their context.
Modern LLMs have a information “cutoff” of a few months ago, at the latest, so the base models will have zero awareness of this formula.
Unless the formula came from something that already existed that both Trumps people and these models are referencing to come up with the same number.