If VisiCalc had synthesized plausible but entirely unsupported spreadsheet calculations
If AIM had connected your instant messages with random people with similar names
If MapQuest had invented entirely nonexistent geographic features and routes
If GMail had sent rewritten versions of your emails with things you didn’t even write
If Yahoo! produced pages of search results of websites that never existed
That’s what today’s LLMs are doing.
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If you used a hammer to drive in a screw
If you use a cigarette lighter to heat your meals
If you search google maps for medical information
If you dry your hair with a leaf blower
If you drive a rascal scooter on the highway
You might be the kind of person who tries to get facts out of an LLM.
@LouisIngenthron The problem is you just described the American public