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I don't think it's really that interesting that LLMs can lie. People have been lying with the written word since the written word existed. Hoaxes and scams ar

I don't think it's really that interesting that LLMs can lie. People have been lying with the written word since the written word existed. Hoaxes and scams are not new. I think what is new is that there are certain signals in text and creative work in general that would ordinarily demonstrate that some care and effort and resources have been used in the process of creating it, which makes it seem more likely that it's legitimate, and that now those signals are no longer valid. I think that people will rather quickly adjust from default credibility to default skepticism for text online, and will rely more on "provenance" for determining what to trust.

fragmede 3y ago
I think that people actually don't lie about some of the things LLMs lie about, which is why it's so jarring that they do. I'm not saying people don't lie - they obviously do. It's that someone's not going to give me documentation about a Unix command line utility that doesn't exist, or a programming library API, and then have be believe them a second time, so when Guido tells me about awk one liners, I believe him. When Ellie the LLM comes around and feeds me lies in a way a person wouldn't, it's really jarring.