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And did that actually happen, or is it just some garbage that it generated? It sounds plausible, of course, but that's exactly what LLMs are best at.



Talk to it and find out. Seriously.

I'd say 40% of my conversations end with it suggesting I ask it to find products for me. For example I was trying to determine if I need to screw down stair nosing or if glue and nails were enough and it wanted to help me find screws


Oh yeah, it also did that for me recently when I asked how I would go about designing a PCB that takes M.2 daughterboards. It recommended stems and threads I should buy. Unfortunately all the product links were dead.


I was asking it about lotions for my roseca, and it continually hallucinated products or recommended discontinued ones




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