> LLMs provide plenty of answers where "right" is not a verifiable metric I do not use them for that: I ask them for precise information. Incidentally, that on

> LLMs provide plenty of answers where "right" is not a verifiable metric I do not use them for that: I ask them for precise information. Incidentally, that one time in which I had to ask for a clever subtler explanation, it was possible to evaluate the quality of the answer - and I found myself pleasantly surprised (for once). What I said is, some people ask LLMs for information and explanation in absence of better and faster repositories - and it is just rational to do so. Those «answers where "right" is not a verifiable metric» are not relevant in this context. Some people use LLMs as <whatever>: yes, /some/ people. That some other people will ask LLMs fuzzy questions does not imply that they will accept them as oracles. > bias ... all humans do Which should, for the frame and amount in which the idea has some truth, have very little substantial weight and surely does not prove the "worshippers" situation depicted by the OP. You approach experience E in state S(t): that is very far from "wanting to trust" (which is just the twisted personality trait of some). > the impulse of ascribing intent and meaning [...] meaning of life First, of all, no: there seems to be no «intent and meaning» in requests like "what is the main export of Kyrgyzstan", and people who ask an LLM about the meaning of life - as if dealing with an intelligent part instead of a lacking thing - pertain to a specific profile. If you have this addiction to dreaming, you are again requested to wake up. Yes, we know many people who stubbornly live in their own delirious world; they do not present themselves decently and they are quite distinct from people radicated in reality. I am reading that some people as if anthropomorphize LLMs, some daemonize LLMs - some people will even deify them - it's just stochastics. Guess what: some people reify some other people - and believe they are being objective. The full spectrum will be there. Sometimes justified, sometimes not.