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by pavel_lishin 818 days ago
I'd be very wary of the LLM hallucinating a few number changes here and there, similar to what copies used to have a habit of doing: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
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Absolutely, the time saved formatting a table + time triple checking it might be the same as doing manually in the first place.

But I was talking about the intended usage, it doesn't sit as fraudulent to me in the scientific sense.

You can ask it for code that will convert your input into tabulated output. Easier to check the logic of the code than all of the values in the table, then just plug your data into it.