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Oh boy. I do research on it for various things. Florida released some laws changing alimony and I researched it via Perplexity to understand what the problem was. It worked. I understood the issue.
Or carbon capture technology.
In any case, I do look directly at the sources. Perplexity.ai is useful for framing a topic, getting the gist of it, but for being sure I know wtf is going on, I personally need to look at the sources.
Thanks for this reply. That's probably the best way to use LLMs - general definitions or framing / summarizing of issues. And then always check the sources to make sure it was accurate. I've played around with ChatGPT and Bard and I think my mistake has been to be a little too granular or specific in my prompts. In most cases it produced results that were inaccurate (ETA: or flat out demonstrably wrong) or only fulfilled a part of the prompt.
I agree. The criticism that they're not accurate kinda misses the point of LLMs being tools. It'd be like complaining that a hammer doesn't jam the nail in all the way after the first stroke. Hit it again...and maybe try hitting it straight this time instead of at an angle. It's an iterative process that can be self-correcting when done thoughtfully.