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80% is generous. Half of that is the user simply not realizing that the information is wrong.
This becomes very obvious if you see anything generated for a field you know intimately.
i think this is why i've never really had a good experience with an LLM - i'm always asking it for more detail about stuff i already know.
it's like chatgpt is pinocchio and users are just sitting on his face screaming "lie to me! lie to me!"
See now that sounds fun
Woah!
Oof. I tried to tell a manager why a certain technical thing wouldn't work, and he pulled out his phone and started reading the Google AI summary "no, look, you just need to check the network driver and restart the router". It was two devices that were electrical not compatible, and there was no IP infrastructure involved.
Yeah, the research says its closer to 60-50% of the time its correct