> You shouldn't be required to tell an information retrieval tool to actually retrieve information rather than making it up! And therein lies the problem: perc

> You shouldn't be required to tell an information retrieval tool to actually retrieve information rather than making it up! And therein lies the problem: perception. LLMs are treated like information retrieval tools but in reality are probability machines that return plausible/mostly accurate information. They're not searching, they're inferring and then guessing. That the guesses are often quite good means that we can easily fool ourselves with whatever it spits out. We call it hallucination but it's a feature, not a bug.