This is the source of your bafflement: "when you know that the answers they give are glorified auto-complete."
They don't. The first report of US lawyers reprimanded for using LLMs to prepare court fillings and including non-existent cases was years ago, and yet it keeps happening. "People" think it's a better search engine, everyone around them agree with that, actual academics study the output like there's thought behind it. Spotting it requires high reading comprehension. 1/
Bjørnar (he/him)
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2025-04-22 11:15:48 UTC
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