Here's a carton of the stuff circa 1935. It was also said to protect you from hangovers.

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[–] [S] 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

From where does that text come? It looks like someone just cut and pasted the output of an LLM, in which case I would suggest deleting it.

LLMs have their uses, but they will happily confabulate, and sound very confident while doing it, such as referring to fictitious court cases which sound plausible, but were never actually cases. You cannot simply ask an LLM and believe what it says without verification.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Do you think it's llm output just because it's clearly marked as llm output?

    Yeah, it can be wrong. There are sources cited if you want to do more research.

    At least this saves the same question being asked multiple times to the LLMs.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If your only defense of posting a wall of slop is "it might be wrong, so research to verify" what was the point of posting it to begin with?

    I don't see how that's any more useful than just making up some random bullshit and saying "do some research to verify if this is accurate."

    And wouldn't not asking the LLM at all be more effective at reducing the number of times the question is asked?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I'm so intrigued by the psychology here... Are these people who previously felt insufficient because they didn't have anything of value to add to conversations, so now they paste LLM output? Like it makes them feel like they're contributing?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The "sources cited" are some entire books, and I am not going go read 100's of pages to possibly find a sentence or two that may or may not back up what this spew is saying. Also, emojis do not "clearly mark" anything, because they can appear different on different systems and are ambiguous.

    Please delete this post, or I'm going to refer it to the moderators to decide if it should be here.

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