No, no they are not. The last thing I want from an encyclopaedia is information I can’t trust, inconsistent and contradictory depending on when and how I search.

The point of an encyclopedia is that you can visit a very specific page under a very specific name and receive information that you know has been vetted and properly researched. You get precisely zero of any of this with an LLM, so they just seem like they’re fundamentally the wrong tool to even consider something like this for.