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Tell that to the man who was accused by Gen AI of having murdered his children.
Ok? If you read what I said, you'll see that I'm not talking about using ChatGPT as an information source. I strongly believe that using LLMs as a search tool is incredibly stupid....for exactly reasons like it being so very confident when relaying inaccurate or completely fictional information.
What I was trying to say, and I get that I may not have communicated that very well, was that Generative Machine Learning Algorithms might find a niche as creative process assistant tools. Not as a way to search for publicly available information on your neighbour or boss or partner. Not as a way to search for case law while researching the defence of your client in a lawsuit. And it should never be relied on to give accurate information about what colour the sky is, or the best ways to make a custard using gasoline.
Does that clarify things a bit? Or do you want to carry on using an LLM in a way that has been shown to be unreliable, at best, as some sort of gotcha...when I wasn't talking about that as a viable use case?