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hdjrudniyesterday at 7:40 AM1 replyview on HN

Why is that at all relevant?

Humans are known to hallucinate a lot. Ask 10 different witnesses at a crime scene what they saw and they'll all report different things.

A good, non-hallucinating LLM would only report things for which it has evidence. It would consult the facts every single time.

It's a pain in the butt for humans to fact-check everything but LLMs can quickly look up all kinds of stuff. That's what makes them useful.


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eruyesterday at 9:45 AM

Yes, and for the LLM you can do it in multiple passes.

So you can bolt the fact-check / source-check pass onto whatever other system you have, without having to redesign the underlying system.