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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by coldtea on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:07AM (#44973733)
>And unlike the human who spent multiple hours writing that article, an LLM would have linked to the original study

Or made up a fake citation, complete with fake or unrelated author names, on the spot

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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by zja on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:12AM (#44973799)
Seconded, I’ve yet to use an LLM that can consistently provide sources that back up what it’s telling me.
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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by ur-whale on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:11PM (#44974503)
> I’ve yet to use an LLM that can consistently provide sources that back up what it’s telling me.

Mmmh, that would have been my take as well up to around end of Q1 2025.

Theses days, the flagship LLM's have reduced hallucination by quite a bit, and are also way better at citing sources (you sometimes have to nudge them).

ChatGPT 5 has been very decent on that particular axis.

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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by dismalaf on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:15AM (#44973833)
The Gemini app is pretty good at giving sources.
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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by rhines on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:38AM (#44974131)
Experienced that today with 2.5 Pro. Though I was amused that all the links were links to Google searches for the source, rather than direct links.
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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by dismalaf on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:12PM (#44974513)
In my chats with 2.5 Flash it gives me the direct sources lol. Also not going to lie, I've found 2.5 Flash generally gets straight to the point with sources a lot quicker than Pro. To the point I don't really use Pro.

Edit - just used Pro, gave me a direct source. Who knows...

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