Well, perhaps we ought to educate people better. And quickly. The real danger of LLMs is that people come to believe they hold some sort of authority — or that

Well, perhaps we ought to educate people better. And quickly. The real danger of LLMs is that people come to believe they hold some sort of authority — or that their output is in any way the end result of a process of deliberation and contemplation rather than simply being a (stochastically perturbed) best guess at what an answer should look like. Yes, people already take Google at face value, but at least (in theory) they know that anything they’re finding there is written either by an organisation with an axe to grind or an individual no more omniscient than they.