> wrong or misleading explanations
Exactly the same issue occurs with search.
Unfortunately not everybody knows to mistrust AI responses, or have the skills to double-check information.
Exactly the same issue occurs with search.
Unfortunately not everybody knows to mistrust AI responses, or have the skills to double-check information.
These are very important and relevant questions to ask oneself when you read about anything, but we also keep in mind that even those question can be misused and they can drive you to conspiracy theories.
You and I have both taken time out of our days to write plausible sounding answers that are essentially opposing hallucinations.
This whole "people are just as incorrect as LLMs" is a poor argument, because it compares the single human and the single LLM response in a vacuum. When you put enough humans together on the internet you usually get a more meaningful result.
There's a reason why there are upvotes, solution and third party edit system in StackOverflow - people will spend time to write their "hallucinations" very confidently.