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The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants
How it works: The Trustworthy Language Model gives any output generated by a large language model a score between 0 and 1, according to its reliability. This lets people choose which responses to trust and which to throw out. Why it matters: Cleanlab hopes that its tool will make large language models more attractive to businesses worried about how much stuff they invent. But while the approach could be useful, it's unlikely to be perfect. Six weeks ago, I pre-ordered the "Firefly Petunia," a houseplant engineered with genes from bioluminescent fungi so that it glows in the dark.