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Re:Google changes its search box by Robotbeat on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:12AM (#48203356)
LLMs are not a site. They are a clever person that can point you to sites. They, like humans, are fallible.
Re:Google changes its search box by tremon on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:59AM (#48206325)
LLMs can not point you to sites, only in a general direction. That is because complete URLs do not exist as single tokens in any of the large models. It can synthesize a plausible-looking url, and if you're lucky that URL might even exist. But that doesn't mean that there is any relation between between the text surrounding a hyperlink in LLM output and the text on the linked page.

AI agents can verify and summarize URLs, but a plain LLM can not.

Re:Google changes its search box by Robotbeat on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:23AM (#48209283)
I bow to your correction. I was using LLMs as a sloppy shorthand for modern AI agents with best interfaces.