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OK I am bracing for the downvotes.. What about when the llm is smarter than the person? Sometimes I get material that is so bad I wish they had had AI do it.

OK I am bracing for the downvotes.. What about when the llm is smarter than the person? Sometimes I get material that is so bad I wish they had had AI do it. Then it would be poor to mediocre. There was an episode of the podcast “Question Everything “ where they talked about how LLM s can sometimes talk people out of conspiracy theories by patiently refuting the arguments with facts. There have been academic studies on this. I think people hate AI because it is often mediocre and flawed but sometimes it’s replacing humans that are inept.

OptionOfT 5mo ago
If the LLM is smarter than the person, the person cannot look at the output and judge to see whether it is correct.
- anigbrowl 5mo ago
  True, but that's a people problem.
abalashov 5mo ago
I thought it was pretty well-established that conspiracists aren't deterred with facts, and that their commitments to the conspiracy theory are essentially emotional and/or in-group identitarian?
- georgeecollins 5mo ago
  You should definitely listen to this podcast which is an interview with a Professor of Psychology at Columbia. He also thought what you thought-- that you can't convince a Q-Anon type-- and they were actually testing something else. When they found out that 25% of people who believed conspiracy theories actually changed their mind after three exchanges with an LLM. They repeated the test and the results were replicable. (But still only about 25%, but that is something.) This made me think: I grew up in a world where there was a flawed but consensus view of the world, its problems, institutions motivations. This came from a common mass media. Maybe getting our answers from AI will lead us to a new (inevitably flawed or even bad) consensus. Weird. Source: https://play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/question-everything/can-a-chatbot-convince-c-4cc36b https://play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/question-everything/can-a...
  - abalashov 5mo ago
    Very interesting. Thank you for that, and I say so with due recognition that my response wasn't really aimed at the central idea of your comment. Thank you for humouring it anyway!

OptionOfT 5mo ago

If the LLM is smarter than the person, the person cannot look at the output and judge to see whether it is correct.

anigbrowl 5mo ago
True, but that's a people problem.

abalashov 5mo ago

I thought it was pretty well-established that conspiracists aren't deterred with facts, and that their commitments to the conspiracy theory are essentially emotional and/or in-group identitarian?

georgeecollins 5mo ago
You should definitely listen to this podcast which is an interview with a Professor of Psychology at Columbia. He also thought what you thought-- that you can't convince a Q-Anon type-- and they were actually testing something else. When they found out that 25% of people who believed conspiracy theories actually changed their mind after three exchanges with an LLM. They repeated the test and the results were replicable. (But still only about 25%, but that is something.) This made me think: I grew up in a world where there was a flawed but consensus view of the world, its problems, institutions motivations. This came from a common mass media. Maybe getting our answers from AI will lead us to a new (inevitably flawed or even bad) consensus. Weird. Source: https://play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/question-everything/can-a-chatbot-convince-c-4cc36b https://play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/question-everything/can-a...
- abalashov 5mo ago
  Very interesting. Thank you for that, and I say so with due recognition that my response wasn't really aimed at the central idea of your comment. Thank you for humouring it anyway!