When I search this topic online, I always find either wrong information or advertising lies. So what is actually something that LLMs can do very well, as in being actually useful and not just outputing a nonsensical word salad that sounds coherent.

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So basically from what I've read, most people use it for natural language processing problems.

Example: turn this infodump into a bullet point list, or turn this bullet point list into a coherent text, help me with rephrasing this text, word association, etc.

Other people use it for simple questions that it can answer with a database of verified sources.

Also, a few people use it as struggle duck, basically helping alleviate writers block.

Thanks guys.

The picture is not mine. I just adapted it. Don't know the original source.

What do you guys think of cross-posting? I usually post this on a photography lemmy first and then just cross post here. Right thing to do, wrong thing to do?I'm new here. Tips are appreciated.

Yes, it kind of is hypocritical to ask this on a social media platform, but what do you guys get out of it?