> Which an unreliable answer is not.

> Hallucinations are not a matter of some "details" being off. They are a matter of plausible, confident-sounding claims that are just plain wrong.

This is no worse than Wikipedia, or the original encyclopedia for that matter. Those contain dubious claims that you'll need to verify on your own too.

LLMs help because they have a gigantic amount of compressed knowledge, and they are able to find relevant information and present it incredibly fast. You wouldn't trust the ten first results of a Google search either, but you wouldn't say that having a search engine is totally useless and in no way an improvement over your local library, would you?

> the poor person who's asking can't tell is wrong, because it sounds plausible and is stated with such confidence.

True, but having to learn how to use a tool properly doesn't make the tool useless, even if it can hurt those who use it carelessly.