I guess it all depends on the topic and levels of trust. How can I be certain that I have a brain? I just have to take something for granted, don't I? Of course I will "verify" the "important stuff", but what is important? How can I tell? Most of the time only thing I need is a pointer in the right direction. Wrong advice? I know when I get there I suppose.
I can remember numerous things I was told while growing up, that aren't actually true. Either by plain lies and rumours or because of the long list of our cognitive biases.
> If you have to look up every fact it outputs after it does, using traditional methods, why not skip to just looking things up the old fashioned way and save time?
What is the old fashioned way? I mean people learn "truths" these days from Tiktok and Youtube. Some of the stuff is actually very good, you just have to distill it based on the stuff I was being taught at school. Nonody has yet declared LLMs as a subtitute for schools, maybe they soon will, but neither "guarantees" us anything. We could as well be taught political agendas.
I could order a book about construction, but I wouldn't build a house without asking a "verified" expert. Some people build anyway and we get some catastrofic results.
Levels of trust, it's all games and play until it gets serious, like what to eat or doing something that involves life threatening physics. I take it as playing with a toy. Surely something great have come up from only a few piece of legos?
> And if you're not verifying literally everything an LLM tells you.. are you sure you're learning anything real?
I guess you shouldn't do it that way. But really, so far the topics I've rigorously explored with ChatGPT for example, have been better than your average journalism. What is real?