I am increasingly convinced that a significant fraction of the population (or possibly _everyone_, a significant fraction of time) ignores content and relies so

I am increasingly convinced that a significant fraction of the population (or possibly _everyone_, a significant fraction of time) ignores content and relies solely on form to assess what they are being told. If something is structured properly, they will accept it, no matter how absurd. LLMs take advantage of this and produce things that are sufficiently similar statistically to what's expected that people's critical facilities just shut down (or are never engaged in the first place). They apparently seem perfectly cogent when even a moment's thought would show they are utter bilge.