alt Hacker NewsEven with the latest models today, the hallucination rate is absurdly high on anything deeper than surface level knowledge or something that can be directly scraped from reddit.
And you notice when it's a topic you know well or something like software where you can immediately tell the options it's giving you don't exist on the page. Leading to the amusing statement "LLMs are bad at what I do but great at everything else".
I've (elsewhere) written about this diminishing return effect on LLM utility in relation to increasing expertise.
The question: what's the net positive gain of turning people who know nothing in a given field into sub-novices, while weighing actual experts down with work slop and marginal returns?
And I wonder what the true cost is of arming so many novices with that level of dangerous knowledge.