chuckle, well as easy as it is to fool yourself with a search engine, at least a search engine didn't just make stuff up--somebody had to actually create a web

chuckle, well as easy as it is to fool yourself with a search engine, at least a search engine didn't just make stuff up--somebody had to actually create a web site advocating the position you wanted to fool yourself into believing. But LLMs face no such restriction :-) I mean, Michael Cohen just got in trouble for citing non-existent court cases. We are at the point where a lawyer smart enough to represent the president of the united states cannot tell the difference between real and hallucinated arguments. LLMs amplify, automate, and mass produce our ability to fool ourselves into believing what we desperately want to be true. It's scary, but I don't want to fall into the same trap that Mitch Daniels did in the OP, and conclude that an epistemic apocalypse is inevitable. Eventually, we will all acquire the necessary skepticism to not fall victim, the same way we learned to cope with chain letters, "satanic panic" over D&D, and other parasitical side effects of new technology and changing times.