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by david-gpu 376 days ago
You can't blindly trust sources, either. Or, sometimes, you ability to understand the sources correctly.

I think of LLMs as bookworm friends who know a little bit about everything and are a little too overconfident about the depth of their understanding. They tend to repeat what they have heard uncritically, just like so many other people do.

If you don't expect them to be the ultimate arbitrer of truth, they can be pretty useful.

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Dictionary.com isn’t likely to just outright make up word meanings. There is such a thing as a trustworthy source, even if you can’t “blindly” trust it. You can still trust it and quote it and cite it. You can’t do any of those things so far with an LLM.