[D] In industry NLP, are there any actual/practical uses for LLMs other than text generation?

I've conducted research in NLP for a while now and have been implementing solutions in industry for the past couple of years. Like many other companies, my company's management was also "wowed" by ChatGPT and has pushed for LLM R&D for a while now. Other than using them for text generation, however, I don't see how good the ROI is.

A lot of the tasks that I'm working on tend to focus on semantic search, information extraction (NER, RE), text-image …

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