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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

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(the referenced HN thread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060519)
1. vjerancrnjak ◴[] No.45103358[source]
I recently remembered a question I had a decade ago.

Why 1 nostril is always clogged up when breathing and it seems to switch now and then?

It's magnificent that I can finally get an answer for that and would never imagine it is completely natural. Never learned about it at school.

No way I can find this via search engine as it just gives me SEO garbage or anecdotal silliness.

I've been going back and getting answers to many questions I previously couldn't.

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2. SpicyLemonZest ◴[] No.45103520[source]
I just Googled the exact phrase "Why 1 nostril is always clogged up when breathing and it seems to switch now and then", and the first result was an explanation from a major medical center about it (https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-i-sometimes-get-st...). Perhaps there's other questions search engines don't do well on - but why don't you consider the AI answer to be "anecdotal silliness" in the same way as you would if it were just some guy on Reddit spouting off?
3. nathan_compton ◴[] No.45103534[source]
Do you care if the answers are right?