Well I heard this argument on ThisWeekInTech recently, someone made a good point: we will learn that LLMs, just like search engines are NOT a repository of trut

Well I heard this argument on ThisWeekInTech recently, someone made a good point: we will learn that LLMs, just like search engines are NOT a repository of truth. Do you expect Google to return only "truthful" and "factual" results? I hope not! Do you want a live in a one sided world where you can only hear things that have been vetted for approval by some government/org? We are pretty used today that Google returns a bunch of stuff, and we pick the things we find useful and we have to chose ourself what is reliable sources and so on. I think part of the distrust here may come from the fact that they design this as a human-like chat interface and make it seem like ChatGPT is a person. And that sets the wrong expectations. So I'd agree with your sentiment in that the providers of these LLMs need to stop trying to make them look like reasonable people. Unfortunately right now it's really exciting tech and the media especially is guilty of passing it off for what it isn't and trying to get all the clicks with their doomsday articles about AI taking over all our jobs, or AI teachings us "false" things and whatnot when LLMs are really just an sort of multiplication matrix that can find data points in a huge data set and interpolate in between in a useful way.