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2025codecrackertoday at 3:39 PM1 replyview on HN

It used to be „don’t use Wikipedia as an academic source“ now it’s the same wit ChatGPT


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ezsttoday at 7:13 PM

Quite the opposite actually, way too many people treat LLMs as oracles, all the while they are fundamentally unreliable at knowledge storage and retrieval. If there was legitimate doubt in the early days as to whether a collaborative encyclopedia could self organise and self censor into a reliable source, the engineering of LLMs makes the opposite a certainty.