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You can divide your approach to asking questions with people (and I do believe this is something people do):

1. You ask someone you can trust for facts and opinions on topics, but you keep in mind that the answer might only be right in 90% of the cases. Also people tend to tell you if the are not sure.

2. For answers you need to rely on you ask people who are legally or professionally responsible if they give you wrong advice: doctors, lawyers, car mechanics, the police etc.

ChatGPT can‘t lose it‘s job if it informs you incorrectly.

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If ChatGPT keeps giving you wrong answers wouldn’t this make paying customers leave? Effectively “losing its job”. But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.

> But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.

I have had language models tell me it doesn't know. Usually when using a RAG-based system like Perplexity, but they can say they don't know when prompted properly.

I've seen Perplexity misrepresent search results and also interpret them differently depending on whether GPT4o or Claude Sonnett 3.5 are being used.

There was an article here just a few days ago, which discussed how firms can be ineffective, and still remain competitive.

https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

The idea that competition is effective, is often in spherical cow territory.

There’s tons of real world conditions which can easily let a firm be terrible at their core competency, and still survive.

I'm not sure about your local laws, but at least in Lithuania it's completely legal to give a wrong advice (by accident, of course)... Even a notary specialist would at most get to pay a larger insurance payment for a while, because human errors falls under professional insurance.

You are contradicting yourself. If the notary specialist needs insurance then there's a legal liability they are insuring against.

If you had written "notaries don't even get insurance because giving bad advice is not something you can be sued for" you would be consistent.

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