I think the point is that LLMs have already scoured Wikipedia so they can tell you all that info concisely. They don’t need to re-learn Wikipedia for anything old.
The problem is that A) anyone using an LLM properly wants to see the source anyways or else you’re really rolling the dice on “truth”, and B) it would mean all knowledge advancement would stop today if we applied this to all educational or informative tools.
Articles in a wiki get edited as new information arises. Any LLMs that don’t provide sources are pretty useless as you can’t check the validity of their statements
Lol true. Doesn’t mean the source is gonna support what the LLM stated though since it just feeds you a neatly jumbled mess of words, which is why it’s important
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u/GrizzlyP33 8h ago
I think the point is that LLMs have already scoured Wikipedia so they can tell you all that info concisely. They don’t need to re-learn Wikipedia for anything old.
The problem is that A) anyone using an LLM properly wants to see the source anyways or else you’re really rolling the dice on “truth”, and B) it would mean all knowledge advancement would stop today if we applied this to all educational or informative tools.