[TUHS] On the unreliability of LLM-based search results (was: Listing of early Unix source code from the Computer History Museum)

[Paul Winalski]

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:

> I think I had read Frankfurt's book before I first started
> calling LLMs bullshit generators, but I can't remember for
> sure.
>

I have always regarded LLMs as bullshit generators.  On first hearing about
them my first thought was, "ELIZA on steroids."

-Paul W.
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