While I’m sure there are edge cases where LLM answers are useful, I tend to agree with this sentiment in general.
The several walls of text generated by Claude that was posted in this thread seem to really miss the mark in many ways.
Not because the legal cases it references don’t exist (I haven’t checked one way or the other), but because it seems to just go on about the rights of Golden Visa holders being protected based on a bunch of cases where their rights to residence on similar conditions would be protected. But that says nothing about rights to citizenship (which is governed by a completely separate law), which is the question that most people are wondering about at the moment.
And then you have “statements” like this which makes zero sense at all:
Since when are PSD politicians worried about Golden Visa investors not spending enough time in Portugal? Any public statements to support this? I’d like to see them.
While you may argue that the output from LLMs may not be much worse than many “news” articles (I’m looking at you TPN), that doesn’t mean we should introduce more noise to the debate if we can avoid it.
On the other hand, using an LLM to find sources that would otherwise be hard to dig up can be totally fine—but please verify before posting. And as far as possible don’t copy/paste a wall of text, instead summarize and link to the original sources. If you do need to include a long output from an LLM, please hide it behind details tags like this:
[details="LLM output"]
LLM output goes here...
[/details]
Which results in output like this:
LLM output
LLM output goes here…