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Given how humans are quickly misled by sociopathic humans who are eloquent and appear to follow logical reasoning, I don't really have any hope. People on the

• cheald 4y ago
  I'm inclined to agree with your assessment, given the existence of the concept of Gell-Mann amnesia at all. That said, I think we might have a glimmer of a chance to escape the executioner's axe here, as it were, because while a psychopath is intentionally deceptive, and will become evasive or aggressive when they sense that you're suspicious and probing of them, LLMs have no such quality, and will "happily" keep talking and exposing their shortcomings to those willing to listen. Ultimately, though, peoples' ability to understand how appropriately to trust LLMs will rest on their ability to understand their own capacity for being too-trusting and easily misled, a feature on which the human psyche does not have a great track record.