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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

An article has context. Who published it? What else has the author written? Llm articles strip that all out.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I can’t speak for all LLMs but the ones I use

  • web based LLM cites its sources. You can just click
  • coding LLM tends to have obvious sources (for example if I tell it to use a vendor API to do something, I know there's API documentation as the source of truth and the script is just like the example I would previously have found on StackOverflow.com).

And yes, I frequently check its work and iterate through telling it to