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until very recently, it was basically impossible to sound articulate while being incompetent. We have to adjust.
by mathgradthrow 1y ago
until very recently, it was basically impossible to sound articulate while being incompetent. We have to adjust.
- leoedin 1y agoYeah this. In the UK we have a real problem with completely unearned authority given to people who went to prestigious private schools. I've seen it a few times. Otherwise shrewd colleagues interpreting the combination of accent and manner learned in elite schools as a sign of intelligence. A technical test tends to pierce the veil. LLMs give that same power to any written voice!
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> until very recently, it was basically impossible to sound articulate while being incompetent. We have to adjust. My observation differs: for very likely centuries, we had/have these people who by their articulateness could "bullshit" in a lot of topics where their knowledge is very shallow. Only experts could recognize the difference (but "nobody" listened/listens to those); the mass of people (including a lot of those in power) fell/falls for these articulate pseudo-"experts". By the existence of LLMs, a lot of people simply became aware of this centuries-old phenomenon (or to put it more colloquially: LLMs brought "articulate bullshit as a service" to the masses :-) ).