• Starya67@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Only they’re not “answers”. AI does not provide information, it tells you what you want to hear. It even makes up fake scientific papers as “references”. So you think your info is backed up by peer reviewed sources. Nope!

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      3 months ago

      One of my favorite economics bloggers for decades started sourcing his information with LLMs. He was such a bright guy. 😭

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      3 months ago

      Oh they’ll give “answers” alright. They could just be wrong or untethered from reality.

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      3 months ago

      The better models absolutely will cite real scientific papers that are relevant to your discussion. It doesn’t hallucinate as a matter of course, it can hallucinate some of the time. You can’t trust what it gives you 100%, you have to verify it. But it very often gives useful answers and information.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        ok, but they will give you a different answer to a question a day later if you delete previous prompts.