• xvapx@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Conversations with LLMs are absolutely worthless as a source of knowledge.

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      2 days ago

      they are great for doing a lot of web research into complex subjects, create an inventory of the most provelant discussions and historical precedents and form all that into an easy to read report. Since the llm is not the source of knowledge but the search engine, your comment is absolutely worthless as a coherent reply to my post

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        23 hours ago

        No, LLMs are not a search engine, that’s not how they work. They process and regurgitate text, and even in such “simple” uses there is risk of hallucination.
        Your conversation with a LLM is absolutely worthless as a coherent reply to anything.

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          2 hours ago

          LLM’s are search engines by their nature, but on top of that they have search engines they reference, they have powerful grepping and search tools to iterate through those results come up with the prevailing theories and outliers and present that as an organized report to you, unless you can find something that is factually incorrect about my statement you are arguing against what you are seeing with your eyes which i dont quite get