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→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-08 14:24 UTC
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Chatbots and LLMs as poor information access solutions
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Sunday's thread on why chatbots & LLMs are a bad solution for information access, with replies to the most common types of counterarguments I encountered in my mentions. buttondown.com/maiht3k/archi…
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-05 14:14 UTC
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LLMs and Chatbots Are Poor Technology for Information Access
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Sunday's thread as a newsletter post, with replies to the most common types of counterarguments I encountered in my mentions. buttondown.com/maiht3k/archi… @emilymbender.bsky.social (@emilymbender) As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >> — https://nitter.net/emilymbender/status/1853279181012094999#m
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-05 14:06 UTC
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LLMs Unreliable at Summarizing, Discourage Effective Information Access
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*sigh* LLMs are not reliable at summarizing either. Also, presenting summaries instead of links discourages the kind of effective information access behavior my thread is about.
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Do Not Passively Accept AI-Generated Content
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The chatbot interface invites you to just sit back and take the appealing-looking AI slop as if it were "information". Don't be that guy. /end [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-04 03:34 UTC
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Chatbots as Search: Accepting Answers Without Critical Examination
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Finally, the chatbots-as-search paradigm encourages us to just accept answers as given, especially when they are stated in terms that are both friendly and authoritative. >>
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-04 03:34 UTC
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Chatbot answers limit growth in information literacy skills
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If instead you get an answer from a chatbot, even if it is correct, you lose the opportunity for that growth in information literacy. >>
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-04 03:34 UTC
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Chatbots remain problematic for information access beyond LLM limitations
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But even if the chatbots on offer were built around something other than LLMs, something that could reliably get the right answer, they'd still be a terrible technology for information access. >>
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-04 03:33 UTC
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95% Accuracy Systems More Dangerous Than 50% Due to Trust
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Furthermore, a system that is right 95% of the time is arguably more dangerous tthan one that is right 50% of the time. People will be more likely to trust the output, and likely less able to fact check the 5%. >>
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-04 03:33 UTC
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LLM as Search Replacement: Correctness is Only Chance
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If someone uses an LLM as a replacement for search, and the output they get is correct, this is just by chance. >>
→ View original post on X — @emilymbender, 2024-11-04 03:33 UTC