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No. Not when it matters. It makes stuff up. The less you carefully check every single fucking thing it says, the more likely you are to believe some lies it subtly slipped in as it went along. If truth doesn't matter, go ahead and use LLMs.
If you just want some ideas that you're going to sift through, independently verify and check for yourself with extreme skepticism as if Donald Trump were telling you how to achieve world peace, great, you're using LLMs effectively.
But if you're trusting it, you're doing it very, very wrong and you're going to get humiliated because other people are going to catch you out in repeating an LLM's bullshit.
If it's so bad as if you say, could you give an example of a prompt where it'll tell you incorrect information.