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But you can still just generate any arbitrary amount of information to support the ‘fact’

LLMs are very good at this clearly

The strength of the sources are not a question of quantity. A hundred obscure blog post have not the same strength as one wikipedia link, because the latter is more trustworthy. There could be some indication beside the info showing the strength of the sources (how many major trustworthy sources support it, etc.).

Seems like a tall order to do that for literally everything.

I guess there’ll be some guy at google going through every blog and saying whether it’s reliable or not?

This is what Google has been doing, via various methods, for 25 years.

And obviously it’s not working for the LLM as a commodity world

That's exactly what PageRank is about, invented by Google.

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