> Name literally any other technology that works this way. The internet for one. Not the internet itself (although it certainly can be unreliable), but rather

> Name literally any other technology that works this way. The internet for one. Not the internet itself (although it certainly can be unreliable), but rather the information on it. Which I think is more relevant to the argument anyway, as LLM’s do in fact reliably function exactly the way they were built to. Information on the internet is inherently unreliable. It’s only when you consider externalities (like reputation of source) that its information can then be made “reliable”. Information that comes out of LLM’s is inherently unreliable. It’s only through externalities (such as online research) that its information can be made reliable. Unless you can invent a truth machine that somehow can tell truth from fiction, I don’t see either of these things becoming reliable, stand-alone sources of information.