People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics.
I wish they wouldn’t, but people use LLMs as their general search engines now.
I wish they wouldn’t, but people use LLMs as their general search engines now.
Note I used the word "seriously", I meant it in its fullest form, i.e. serious people.
I'm not interested in what-if arguments based on "you can't fix stupid".
Stupid people also blindly believe whatever a US LLM tells them without any form of verification, hallucinations and all.
Most people on this planet would agree that a Chinese LLM is perfectly usable for all tasks except asking about politically sensitive matters.
And for most people on the planet, that is just fine. They can get their political information elsewhere.
Is academia serious enough? Well ever since LLM journals' inboxes are bombarded with submissions, and this applies across fields. Like OP said, ppl serious or not are asking LLM about any stuff, also serious or not.
Of all the people, academics should know better than to get their answers from LLMs.
This is a useless rubric and makes discussing this pointless.