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Robotbeattoday at 5:12 AM1 replyview on HN

LLMs are not a site. They are a clever person that can point you to sites. They, like humans, are fallible.


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tremontoday at 11:59 AM

LLMs can not point you to sites, only in a general direction. That is because complete URLs do not exist as single tokens in any of the large models. It can synthesize a plausible-looking url, and if you're lucky that URL might even exist. But that doesn't mean that there is any relation between between the text surrounding a hyperlink in LLM output and the text on the linked page.

AI agents can verify and summarize URLs, but a plain LLM can not.