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		gmac 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia Not really: it's arguably quite a lot worse. Because you can judge the trustworthiness of the source when you follow a link from Google (e.g. I will place quite a lot of faith in pages at an .nhs.uk URL), but nobody knows exactly how that specific LLM response got generated.

naasking 6 months ago [–]

Many of the big LLMs do RAG and will provide links to sources, eg. Bing/ChatGPT, Gemini Pro 2.5, etc.

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