Post #1499813
2026-04-15 15:12 UTC
@festal But the abstract is created via LLMs the same way Google AI Overview etc is, right? I don't see how this beats the allegations of "no hallucinations". It is of course better to not also use the LLM to synthesize the text that humans understand as "sources". But it is still using stochastic word synthesis for the abstract, no?
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@festal@tldr.nettime.org 2026-04-15 15:22
@malteengeler It's probably still the same underlying LLM logic, but working on a very constrained corpus (compared to Google summaries) and providing links back to the full sources. In this sense, it's more like a catalogue search, that gives you a sense of the content of a groups of documents, rather than just list of individual documents organized by "author, title, date, keyword". If you care, you still have to read the paper, but you can access it differently and perhaps find relevant papers more quickly across a larger search space, and we are all dealing with way larger search spaces than before, even, and particularly, in academia.