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Tantalizing! But problematic, including discriminating raw material from instructions (I'm ignorant thus surprised).
"Despite their promise, LLMs introduce several new problems to document processing. Among them, they can introduce confabulations or hallucinations (plausible-sounding but incorrect information), accidentally follow instructions in the text (thinking they are part of a user prompt), or just generally misinterpret the data."
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Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts - For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a ... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why-extracting-data-from-pdfs-is-still-a-nightmare-for-data-experts/ #opticalcharacterrecognition #computationaljournalism #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #simonwillison #derekwillis #raykurzweil #mistralocr #chatgpt #chatgtp #mistral #biz #tech #pdfs #ocr #ai