If you want, you can ask an LLM and then do your *own* fact checking of its answer, using clues you find in its output. This can be helpful, as sometimes the phrasing you think of for a search won’t be the right magic words, and an LLM can help you find those. What these tools are doing is more like “automatic free association” than “answering questions”. They can be a useful *tool* for answering questions, but the way you use them is critically important.