this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
230 points (97.5% liked)
Technology
60351 readers
6237 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Hey, at least some people are citing their sources.
How often do people say stuff like that without telling others where it came from? It's easy enough to accept things as true if they sound reasonable. Having a source means that grain of salt is already there.
Giving a LLM as a source is like giving your hair dresser as a source for things not related to hair dressing, because LLMs are trained on random people's online posts mixed in with actual knowledgeable people's posts.
Saying they got info from a LLM makes them less credible that someone who might actually know what they are talking about. They basically admit they don't have the ability to think for themselves and are just trying to promote using LLMs.
It's not a good source, but knowing they got it from there is useful information.