LLMs don’t have any historical knowledge, they produce reasonably coherent blocks of text. There’s a reason people call them slop machines, because their primary purpose is to produce a lot of text, not any kind of correct information. The fact that they’re sometimes correct is a coincidence, and is the reason why they’re incorrect up to 60% of the time. It doesn’t matter if a book was written in the 1600s or the 1950s or 2026, because the LLM is not going to have any cogent information about it that isn’t a statistical accident from smashing different sources together indiscriminately.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

Google is evil. From the propagation of surveillance capitalism, to their selling of tech space to the highest bidder deteriorating the global knowledge base, to their suppression of information that US oligarchs find distasteful, they can’t be reasonably trusted to provide accurate information.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait/

So you’re using autocorrect made by dishonest Larry to help you read about the rise and anatomy of fascism? You’re likely poisoning your own well and not even realizing it.

Trust me, I know. They won’t stop at people of color, they won’t stop at Jews, they won’t stop at trans people, they won’t stop at queer people, they won’t stop at white women, they won’t stop at poor white people. They’ll redefine whiteness and maleness and citizenship as many times as they need to in order to take as much power and wealth as they can. But the question was specifically about the people ICE had snatched up

Stephen Miller and Donald Trump and all of those people in the Epstein cohort are white supremacists, they want all nonwhite people to die or become slaves. They might deny that, they’ll say “Oh no, we just want immigrants to come in through proper channels,” but you can look at their treatment of Native Americans and see who they really are. The endgame is just that anyone who’s not white is no longer alive, no longer in the US, or no longer a free person.

Knowing what I know about LLMs and Google, using the Google LLM as a reading assistant seems like possibly the worst idea.

Yeah, that headline is incorrect. The laws are there specifically to surveil adults, “for child safety” is a smokescreen justification. This isn’t a “we tried to do a good thing, but there’s this unfortunate side effect,” the surveillance was the goal.