When I search this topic online, I always find either wrong information or advertising lies. So what is actually something that LLMs can do very well, as in being actually useful and not just outputing a nonsensical word salad that sounds coherent.

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So basically from what I've read, most people use it for natural language processing problems.

Example: turn this infodump into a bullet point list, or turn this bullet point list into a coherent text, help me with rephrasing this text, word association, etc.

Other people use it for simple questions that it can answer with a database of verified sources.

Also, a few people use it as struggle duck, basically helping alleviate writers block.

Thanks guys.

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[โ€“] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They work well when being correct doesn't matter

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  • [โ€“] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, yes, but then what's the point? It would be like having Wikipedia filtered through Alex Jones.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago

    There are plenty of use cases that don't involve it needing to recite accurate facts.

    I used it to help write copy for my website, to write proposals, and to help with rephrasing when I can't think of the most diplomatic way to say a thing.

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