[2devnull]

If one gave you a 10,000 page bibliography would you read all the sources? The same problem exists (long bibliographies) in human knowledge transfer. I’m suggesting this is an architectural issue, not a LLM problem per se. LLMs are not supposed to be AGI.

[creata]

I never need to read all the sources, only the sources that are relevant to the bits that I'm referencing, no?

[2devnull]

If you only need bits of info with citation, an LLM can do that. It’s synthesis that’s the problem. It’s true for humans as well.

[NBJack]

An actual citation and a string that happens to be formatted to look like a citation are very different. I wish we were at the point that most LLMs could do the former.

[hughesjj]

I've seen the former happen for some GitHub docs and when enabling plugins.

I agree there's cause for concern, and I hope it's a gradual rollout that's introspected in between each propagation of such, but I definitely think it's viable to be used no more less safely than other tooling in the government today (for better or worse).