[kristofferR]

Agree, "hallucination" as an argument to not use LLMs for curiosity and other non-important situations is starting to seem more and more like tech luddism, similar to the people who told you to not read Wikipedia 5+ years after the rest of us realized it is a really useful resource despite occasional inaccuracies.

[majormajor]

Fun thing about wikipedia is that if one person notices, they can correct it. [And someone's gonna bring up edit wars and blah blah blah disputed topics, but let's just focus on straightforward factual stuff here.]

Meanwhile in LLM-land, if an expert five thousand miles a way asked the same question you did last month, and noticed an error... it ain't getting fixed. LLMs get RL'd into things that look plausible for out-of-distribution questions. Not things that are correct. Looking plausible but non-factual is in some ways more insidious than a stupid-looking hallucination.

[johnnyanmac]

> to not use LLMs for curiosity and other non-important situations is starting to seem more and more like tech luddism

We're on a topic talking about using an LLM to study. I don't particularly care if someone wants an AI boyfriend to whisper sweet nothings into their ear. I do care when people will claim to have AI doctors and lawyers.