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But hasn’t it become quite easy to deal with this issue simply by asking for the sources of the information and then validating? I quite like using the consensus app and then asking for specific academic paper references which I can then quickly check. However this has taught me also that academic claims must also be validated…

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If you need to validate the sources, you might as well go to the sources directly and bypass the LLM. The whole point of LLMs is not needing to go to the sources. The LLM consumes them for you. If you need to read and understand the sources yourself well enough to tell if the LLM is lying, the LLM is a wasteful middleman.

It's like buying supermarket food and also buying the same food from the farmers themselves.

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