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there is legions of misunderstandings around LLMs

May 01, 2025 View original thread

there is legions of misunderstandings around LLMs

i mean, i don't blame them, the field moves extremely fast, which is why i'm drawn to it.

if i think back to Nov 2023, most of the things we said "LLMs can't" are now either things currently being done or things we think they probably can do

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social

This is one of the most-shared posts on Bluesky in the past day and it's just completely false. You might think ChatGPT is a *bad* search engine, or prefer another search engine. But it has had integrated web search since last year.

Skeet from Ann Leckie reading: "Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again."

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crap, i made a grammar mistake. Oh well

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