Same way you can tell if the source material is correct. Or indeed, anything you read online. How confident are you in the veracity of any random Wikipedia article or blog?
You use your brain and cross-reference multiple sources.
Even traditional research methods return bogus information. People are just wrong sometimes and you as a researcher have to deal with that.
The way to deal with LLM accuracy is to not trust it blindly. Same as everything. The LLM will try to convince you and itself that it's right even when it isn't. But you can say the same for a shockingly large number of historic works written by explorers and people who had no clue what they were talking about.
You use your brain and cross-reference multiple sources.
Even traditional research methods return bogus information. People are just wrong sometimes and you as a researcher have to deal with that.
The way to deal with LLM accuracy is to not trust it blindly. Same as everything. The LLM will try to convince you and itself that it's right even when it isn't. But you can say the same for a shockingly large number of historic works written by explorers and people who had no clue what they were talking about.