Your criticism of LLMs also applies to humans and so implies humans don’t possess knowledge.

Humans can learn texts by heart, even lots of text (I have some expertise on that, having studied opera singing). They can reproduce these texts accurately, deterministically and repeatably. An LLM is a statistical machine. It does not know any text by heart and it is by pure chance that it sometimes reproduces existing texts verbatim.

	▲	copperx 33 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ant tips for doing so? I've never been able to do that, even as a kid. I remember the meaning but not the exact words.
	▲	kjshsh123 14 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Humans sometimes don't remember things 100%. LLMs can produce certain text and be run deterministically. I don't really understand this side of the debate other than as a gotcha tbh. If LLM use atrophies your brain and skills that's bad. If it has a repulsive writing style that's bad. I'm not sure what the debate about whether an AI is a statistical parrot unlike humans accomplishes. Is relying 100% on a bad human speechwriter somehow better?