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In my experience LLM's hallucinate a lot.

Often giving "plausible but entirely wrong" output that is hard to discern from factual, real output.

Yes.

At the moment they are great for entertainment.

But for factual information, you are better off just grabbing a copy of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia's information often isn't collated how you want. Eg List the states where the biggest city is larger in population than the state capital? There isn't specifically an article for that. Sure you could take the List of United States cities by population article and assemble the list yourself, or you could just have ChatGPT do it for you.

Yes, language models are already great for collating information, but they are still too unreliable to rely on.

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