Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Well, the primary thing is that you can ask extremely specific questions and get tailored responses.
That’s the best use case for LLMs, imo. It’s less of a replacement for a traditional encyclopedia- though people use it like that also- and more of a replacement for googling your question and getting a Reddit thread where someone explains.
The issue comes when people take everything it spits out as gospel, and do zero fact checking on it- basically the way that they hallucinate is the primary issue I have with it.
If there’s a chance it’s going to just flatly make things up, invent statistics, or just be entirely wrong… I’d rather just use a normal forum and ask a real person that probably has a clue whatever question I have. Or try to find where someone has already asked that question and got an answer.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Google is so shit nowadays, it’s main purpose is to sell you things, not to actually retrieve the things you ask.
Mainly you see this with coding related questions, they were much better 5 years ago. Now only way to get results is to ask LLM and hope it doesn’t hallusinate some library that doesn’t exist.