With #Galactica and #ChatGPT I'm seeing people again getting excited about the prospect of using language models to "access knowledge" (i.e. instead of search engines). They are not fit for that purpose --- both because they are designed to just make shit up and because they don't support information literacy. Chirag Shah and I lay this out in detail in our CHIIR 2022 paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816

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@emilymbender I came here for the art but find this fascinating. Thanks for this.