Statistical truths based on observation of reality is the basis for incremental additions science. Statistical truths based on what you read in the textbook is what actually is almost all science, to everyone, at almost all times.
There's few things in our lives any of us actually learned first-hand, empirically. Everything else we learned the same way LLMs did - as what is expected to be the right completion to a question or inquiry.
The objective truth as we experience is things that, were we to make a prediction conditioned on them, our prediction would turn out correct. That doesn't mean we actually make such predictions often, or that we ever made such predictions learning it.
There's few things in our lives any of us actually learned first-hand, empirically. Everything else we learned the same way LLMs did - as what is expected to be the right completion to a question or inquiry.
The objective truth as we experience is things that, were we to make a prediction conditioned on them, our prediction would turn out correct. That doesn't mean we actually make such predictions often, or that we ever made such predictions learning it.