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Re:AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, ... by ColdStream on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:47PM (#48972775)
That works ok until the citation material ends up with LLM output being fed in. Already there are many examples of this happening.
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Re:AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, ... by papercrane on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:51PM (#48972803)
Yes, the trick is having a "ground-truth" KB it can link to, and trying to avoid citogensis from happening. I'm not sure if it's a technique that's every going to scale because of that.
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