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by TeMPOraL 732 days ago
> I cannot stress strongly enough that direct comparisons between LLMs and experts on the Internet are inappropriate.

In this context, I very much agree. But I'd like to stress that "experts on the Internet" is not what 99% of the users read 99% of the time, because that's not what search engines surface by default. When you make e.g. food or law or health-related queries, what you get back isn't written by experts - it's written by content marketers. Never confuse the two.

> A researcher can also query multiple sources to determine how much there is concensus about.

> You can't do that with LLMs.

A person like that will know LLMs hallucinate, and query multiple sources and/or their own knowledge, and/or even re-query the LLM several times. Such people are not in danger - but very much annoyed when perfectly reasonable queries get rejected on the grounds of "safety".