Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) on Nostr: But even if the chatbots on offer were built around something other than LLMs, ...
But even if the chatbots on offer were built around something other than LLMs, something that could reliably get the right answer, they'd still be a terrible technology for information access.
Setting things up so that you get "the answer" to your question cuts off the user's ability to do the sense-making that is critical to information literacy.
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