What's really awful is that it seems like they've trained these LLMs to be "helpful", which means to say "yes" as much as possible. But, that's the case even when the true answer is "no".

I was searching for something recently. Most people with similar searches were trying to do X, I was trying to do Y which was different in subtle but important differences. There are tons of resources out there showing how to do X, but none showing how to do Y. The "AI" answer gave me directions for doing Y by showing me the procedure for doing X, with certain parts changed so that they match Y instead. It doesn't work like that.

Like, imagine a recipe that not just uses sugar but that relies on key properties of sugar to work, something like caramel. Search for "how do I make caramel with stevia instead of sugar" and the AI gives you the recipe for making caramel with sugar, just with "stevia" replacing every mention of "sugar" in the original recipe. Absolutely useless, right? The correct answer would be "You can't do that, the properties are just too different." But, an LLM knows nothing, so it is happy just to substitute words in a recipe and be "helpful".