Lots of important points here. I used AI a couple of times for travel help. It worked fairly well but I noticed that some info on hotels was inaccurate as well as subway stops. A friend used AI for book comps and found 2 out of 5 books cited were incorrect.
Yeah there’s always that healthy dose of distrust necessary. But for sure is still useful in some ways. Isn’t it wild how inaccurate it can be on comps?
You are so right to alert people to the hallucinatory nature of LLMs. I've experienced this in the past when I asked an LLM to fill in the details of something I was familiar with (more for completeness than anything else) and then discovered made-up results. A gut check is important, as you point out. I follow the links that the chatbot throws up as a way of checking for hallucinations. Great for research, though not for writing.
Lots of important points here. I used AI a couple of times for travel help. It worked fairly well but I noticed that some info on hotels was inaccurate as well as subway stops. A friend used AI for book comps and found 2 out of 5 books cited were incorrect.
Yeah there’s always that healthy dose of distrust necessary. But for sure is still useful in some ways. Isn’t it wild how inaccurate it can be on comps?
Awesome analysis. Thanks so much!
Thanks for reading :)
Nope. AI ain't for me. Great article. Thank you!
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You are so right to alert people to the hallucinatory nature of LLMs. I've experienced this in the past when I asked an LLM to fill in the details of something I was familiar with (more for completeness than anything else) and then discovered made-up results. A gut check is important, as you point out. I follow the links that the chatbot throws up as a way of checking for hallucinations. Great for research, though not for writing.