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I apologize for the necro, but I was searching "LLM" in here just to get a vibe check of how this server feels towards LLMs and AI in general. The discussions I saw were very interesting and I wanted to chip in.

This and another reply you provided seem to summarize into two points:

LLMs can often be confidently wrong
Accuracy is only as good as the end user

I entirely agree with these points. I also would like to argue: The same is true with humans.

Groups of humans are only as good as their processes for data collection and verification, as well as their external stimulus and feedback opportunities. The same is true of LLMs.

When a human learns or investigates something, they are starting from basically nothing or whatever they relate to. This same problem space exists in LLMs, where an LLM is only as good as its internal network and training data.

Just like if you had a group of, say, 10 people in a small community that don't use the internet or "get out" that much, they will functionally hallucinate. That's a very basic example of how we get "conspiracy theorists" in America and other places.

It's also why people who travel a lot and interact with more people, especially if they are formally educated, typically have a much stronger grounding on reality and how to approach new situations or solve problems.

Just like LLMs, humans are only as good as our brain's neural networks are. It's just that we are constantly processing, have capability for active feedback, and have very complex regions of the brain designed to solve many problems. A traditional LLM has a very narrow scope of these things compared to us.

I am unsure of the specifics of more modern/robust models, but it's clear that models like Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 have much more complex capabilities. It's less about the LLM itself and more about its tooling and framework.

For example, Gemini is almost exclusively used for single searches and is a very cheap model that Google can offer for free. It's …

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