[staticman2]

Are you uploading PDFs that already have a text layer?

I don't currently subscribe to Gemini but on A.I. Studio's free offering when I upload a non OCR PDF of around 20 pages the software environment's OCR feeds it to the model with greater accuracy than I've seen from any other source.

[dmd]

I’m not uploading PDFs at all. I’m talking about PDFs it finds while searching than it extracts data from for the conversation.

[staticman2]

I'm surprised to hear anyone finds these models trustworthy for research.

Just today I asked Claude what year over year inflation was and it gave me 2023 to 2024.

I also thought some sites ban A.I. crawling so if they have the best source on a topic, you won't get it.

[Workaccount2]

Anytime you use LLMs you should be keenly aware of their knowledge cutoff. Like any other tool, the more you understand it, the better it works.

[staticman2]

I'm sorry but I don't see what "knowledge cutoff" has to do with what we were talking about- which is using a LLM find PDFs and other sources for research.