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PorciiVorbesc • yesterday at 10:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>I ask them for the same source (and looks like they provided it)

I also saw it now. That blog is not a representative ground truth, but just another opinion piece, which I can respect as an opinion of the blog's user base, but I can't take as an accurate real world statistic, same how aggregate opinions you read on HN are not representative of the actual real world.

I hope you can understand my PoV. You can also disagree if you want, but you'll need to bring something more than "that's wrong because LLMs sometimes hallucinate" as proof that Gemini's data is wrong in this case.


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satvikpendem • yesterday at 10:55 PM

In theory if you brought a better source than that person then I'd agree with you, but,

> you'll need to bring something more than "that's wrong because LLMs sometimes hallucinate" as proof that Gemini's data is wrong in this case.

actually I can say it's wrong or likely to be wrong especially if it doesn't cite the sources it uses. And if it does, then just paste the sources here instead of the LLM output. It is also unknown where it got the info and as someone else said, you ask it two different times and it gave two different answers, thus it is unreliable.