r/TopCharacterTropes • • 12h ago

Characters Acknowledging that torture is not an efficient form of interrogation

Torture is often shown as an effective way of interrogation, with writers forgetting one key detail: People lie. AAMOF, it's likely that they will lie and give you untrue information to not be tortured

The Last of Us - Joel has an interrogation map where he'd make two different people point to something on a map. If they both pointed the same thing it meant the info was true. Very often this wasn't the case

Mass Effect 2 - Garrus points out that torture is not effective because victims will lie to make the torture stop

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u/IKluke 12h ago

we should make computeralgorithms with this 'word that makes sense' logic. Could be really usefull

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u/GabrielGames69 12h ago

I think an algorithm could reach a phrase that makes sense but I worry it wouldn't be able to verify it fits in context. For example, I dont know but I really am worried P Js are everywhere and everyone yells towards kids about it. Is a sentence that makes enough sense for the acronym without context.

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u/jedisalamander 9h ago

Thats just how LLMs work really

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u/finalremix 8h ago

I think that's the joke.

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u/Top_Conference_477 8h ago

And why all the tech bros became staunch determinists a few years ago. They think humans works that way too.