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Natural Language Interfaces for Databases: What Changes for Users?

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A mixed-method, between-subjects user study comparing SQL-LLM, a GPT-4o-backed NLIDB, with Snowflake, a traditional SQL analytics platform finds that a verification burden survives the switch to natural language, so an NLIDB that hides the generated SQL would remove the very step users relied on to trust the answer.

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