[kbenson]

Different people have different levels of understanding. If the person you ask is an astrophysicist, their answer will be grounded in a lot more understanding than if you ask a small child.

An LLM is like a congress of all the children voting on the answers they've heard their parents talk about in passing to other adults, which they sometimes miss the context of so misunderstand.

Useful for getting information, but not nearly as useful as asking someone with grounded domain knowledge, for multiple reasons. Depending on the topic, someone with domain knowledge can be easier or harder to find, which is why LLMs are more or less useful depending on the domain, and how important it is they are correct and not just on the right ballpark.