You can't seriously compare the problem of world peace with the problem of exercising the most basic level of critical thinking w.r.t. LLM output after it has already proven itself unreliable. That's not a utopian dream, it's a level of prudence on par with not sticking a fork in an electrical socket.

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ffsm8 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're seriously overestimating the average person's ability to understand what llms are.

Look at all the influences, streamers, podcasters constantly asking em things and taking it as fact - live.

Isn't the joe Rogan experience like the most watched podcast or something? Every episode I've ever stumbled upon he "fact checks" multiple things via their sponsor which is just an llm provider specialized on news.

People aren't good at statistics. If something is close enough to the truth enough times, and talks authoritively on everything with good English... Guess what, they're gonna trust it.

	▲	andrewflnr 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You don't need to know how an LLM works to realize "sometimes the magic ChatGPT box tells me wrong things". Even if you fully fall for the anthropomorphism, this only requires the same level of awareness as realizing that after the third or fourth thing your weird uncle tells you that turns out not to be true, maybe you shouldn't take him at his word.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would happily bet that you too have fallen for this at least once. Unless you cut AI out of your life completely and do not interact with others.

AI output is like that COVID video of contamination, you almost can't avoid it unless you scrupulously check each and every thing that is presented as fact that you are exposed to. And absolutely nobody does that.

	▲	andrewflnr 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Unless you cut AI out of your life completely Pretty close. I only touched ChatGPT a couple times a few years ago, haven't used the others (on purpose at least. Google forces its Gemini summaries on me but I mostly avoid them, because, umm, see above.) > and do not interact with others. Most people I interact with are on the same page about AI. But I try to keep my critical thinking online anyway, like I always have. If someone tried to feed me AI slop, I would consider that person to have betrayed my trust and would, to put it gently, try to interact with them less.

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philipov 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You may demand that of yourself, but for others we must design around the fact that they are stupid. You do not have the power to change their stupidity, only your response to it.

	▲	andrewflnr 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. I'm not sure why you think that's responsive to my post. I'm mostly pointing out just how deeply stupid they are. Though if you have a useful response besides "weather the storm while everyone else learns the hard way", I'm listening.

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bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yes but the electrical socket in question is a fairly new-fangled one, who doesn't want to fork-test it a bit.