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While I'm not a fan of scrapping you would think reddit would want this to push traffic to the site. Get a good answer and follow the referral link and you have a new monkey.
Are there any statistics on how many LLM chatbot users actually click on the source links?
I don't know how many do, but they're fools if they don't.
You'd think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I've found the information straight up wasn't there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page's content.
But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.