My boss trusts me to be able to accurately check the quality of parts I weld. That's literally my job. It's not blind trust, I'd lose my job if I couldn't consistently produce good results, but once I was trained to do my job I can be left to my own devices. You can't do that with an LLM because you'd still need a human to double-check to make sure it didn't hallucinate that the part was correctly welded.

That's the difference - intelligent beings, once they understand something, can be trusted. Obviously if they don't understand something, like the fact that the Earth is round, then you can't trust them. Intelligence still requires education and training, but the difference is that educating and training intelligent beings actually produces consistent results that can be relied on.

Notably, "hallucinate" is actually a term invented by the companies behind LLMs. It's not really accurate, because hallucination still implies intelligence. They're just pattern recognition engines, they don't "hallucinate" they just don't have any idea what the patterns mean or why they happen. B follows A, that's all it knows. If a sequence occurs where C follows A it makes a mistake and we call that "hallucination" even though it's really just a mindless machine churning thoughtlessly repeating the patterns it was trained on.