modern, you are right, LLMs use statistics of word salad they were trained on to produce a similar looking word salad. In truth, many human writers operate in a similar way! Traditional statistics and machine learning deals with producing results that have statistical validity. After initial excitement and marketing blitz, players seem to start working on adding actual facts to nice-looking text. You might search for actual facts in, say, wikipedia, with all obvious caveats. Some of the wikipedia data is already organized in machine-readable form (see wikidata) and used for answering queries. There are, proprietary, sources of reliable data also.
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