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How reliable are modern LLMs? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to extract some crime statistics broken by the type of crime and different populations, all of course normalized by the population size. I got a nice set of tables summarizing the data for each year that I requested.

When I shared these summaries I was told this is entirely unreliable due to hallucinations. So my question to you is how common of a problem this is?

I compared results from Chat GPT-4, Copilot and Grok and the results are the same (Gemini says the data is unavailable, btw :)

So is are LLMs reliable for research like that?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Solutions exist where you give the LLM a bunch of files e.g., PDFs which it then will solely base it's knowledge on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's still a probable token generator, you're just training it on your local data. Hallucinations will absolutely happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This isn't training its called a RAG Workflow, as there is no training step per se