LLMs can definitely be helpful, but you need your radar set to 11 because they will convincingly feed you smart sounding nonsense when you are most at risk.
replyOh yeah, but the same goes for almost any information source (especially these days).
replyYeah, but this is like saying that one needn't focus so much on LLMs making mistakes because humans also mistakes.
replyThey do, but the shape of the way LLMs will confidently mislead you is quite different to the way misinformed humans, or even the malevolent and mendacious humans, will mislead you.
There are plenty of authoritative reference books full of errors. Teachers in every subject can be wrong, convincingly.
replyYes, but human errors are based on genuine and elaborate misconceptions (or propagandistic intent), not squishy, facile "you're right to push back on that, I straight up made that up" type stuff.
replyIt's not anywhere close. Like, by four orders of magnitude.
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