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		vrighter 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia There's a big difference between giving you correct information about the wrong thing, vs giving you incorrect information about the right thing. A librarian might bring you the wrong book, that's the former. An LLM does the latter. They are not the same.

latexr 5 months ago [–]

Fair. With the unreliable librarian you’d be at an advantage because you’d immediately see “this is not what I asked for”, which is not the case with LLMs (and hence what makes them so problematic).

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