
Unless you’ve been air-gapped from society this year, you know that chatbots powered by LLMs (large language models) are everywhere, from search engines to your email inbox. You can perform a lot of interesting tasks with ChatGPT, Bing Chat or Google Bard -- but if you’re looking for answers or advice, you can’t always trust them.
The big AI bots grab information from all over the Internet and mash it together, often without citing their sources. If they don’t have information, they can “hallucinate” or make things up to fill in gaps.