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by ndsipa_pomu 85 days ago
I disagree as hallucinations can be drastically far more harmful or misleading than bias.

The problem as I see it is that LLMs perform a type of lossy knowledge compression. Also, the data on which they're trained will typically be the biased articles, so they're unlikely to be any better and very likely worse as they will encode the biases. I don't really see LLMs as being complementary tools as they're more of a summation/averaging tool - like comparing an original painting with a heavily compressed JPEG of that painting. (Of course, having access to a huge library of JPEGs is often more useful than just owning a single painting)