That’s a much better analogy. You have to specifically ask them for information and they will happily retrieve it for you, but because they are unreliable they may get you the wrong thing. If you push back they’ll apologise and try again (librarians try to be helpful) but might again give you the wrong thing (you never know, because they are unreliable).

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vrighter 2 days ago | parent [-]

There's a big difference between giving you correct information about the wrong thing, vs giving you incorrect information about the right thing.

A librarian might bring you the wrong book, that's the former. An LLM does the latter. They are not the same.

	▲	latexr 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Fair. With the unreliable librarian you’d be at an advantage because you’d immediately see “this is not what I asked for”, which is not the case with LLMs (and hence what makes them so problematic).