[MangoToupe]

> You wouldn’t just have a frozen snapshot of knowledge, you’d have a tool that can help people use it, even if they’re starting with limited background.

I think the only way this is true is if you used the LLM as a search index for the frozen snapshot of knowledge. Any text generation would be directly harmful compared to ingesting the knowledge directly.

Anyway, in the long term the problem isn't the factual/fictional distinction problem, but the loss of sources that served to produce the text to begin with. We already see a small part of this in the form of dead links and out-of-print extinct texts. In many ways LLMs that generate text are just a crappy form of wikipedia with roughly the same tradeoffs.