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That's literally how the work: They can't reason or think. They don't know or understand anything. They just output strings of words that are statistically likely to be the response to your question based on strings of words that they've been trained on.
Yeah, they're basically predicting the responses.
It's always sad to see people anthropomorphising LLMs.
I've heard it referred to as spicy autocomplete and also next word extruder
Probability machine prone to hallucinations is how I call them.
No need to humanize them, they are Markov machines. That is all.
I did have a much better discussion of 'Moby Dick' a while ago, but I imagine there is lots of info that AI has scraped from scholarly articles and the like about classics.
They don't do well with big sources like books unless they're discussed. If there's no online references or scholarly articles it won't know the contents of the book. Same with movies or music.
Right and even if it "knew" the contents it still couldn't interpret them or have a discussion about the meaning.