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You can find information from a library. What you can't do is write a quote in a paper and source it as "my local library".
LLMs are worse than Google, Wikipedia and libraries because they are unable to cite journal, volume, issue and page number.
Much like a library you would use Google and Wikipedia to find information, not use them as sources themselves.
We agree. My original comment was
That was only half of your comment.
Here's where I disagree. All together the two sentences read as though you're second sentence is the reason for why you believe the first sentence.
The point I was trying to make with the library analogy is that although you wouldn't list "the library " as a source of information, you probably wouldn't consider them to be enemies of education.
Perhaps I should have been more explicit about the subject
Wikipedia and Google are enemies of academic papers just as much as LLMs.
They are not enemies of learning. Neither are libraries.
I am hesitant to say that an LLM is a good source of learning because it bullshits regularly in ways that are undetectable.