The LLMs are basically useless for anything requiring reasoning or to help solve real problems, but the big use-case is that LLMs are competing with google sear

The LLMs are basically useless for anything requiring reasoning or to help solve real problems, but the big use-case is that LLMs are competing with google search. Google search is so polluted with low quality ads-first SEO garbage that the may-be-hallucinating-LLM is a more effective way to find some sorts of information than manually slogging through the garbage and possibly getting the wrong answer anyway. I suppose that there is also some hope that the hallucination problem will erode as more effort/compute is poured into the training. There may need to be a paradigm shift though, the current structure around generating tokens based on probabilities seems like it will forever be a 'regurgitator'.