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The answers given by LLMs are like the outcome of a popularity contest.

But, unfortunately, sometimes the truth is not popular.

Computer “scientists” keep inventing the same flawed methods. Google’s Page Rank system for search was also designed on the basis of a popularity contest.

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True but it's the most popular sequence of words, not the most popular opinion or belief. Big difference. Page Rank was very successful, just like LLMs are now, but both will be eclipsed easily by AI technology that understands what it reads.

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