I am really confused about this article and responses. We ALL knew this was coming years ago. Fake news, faked photos, faked videos have been out there for EONS. Kids in school have been using AI to create term papers that don't pass the fact-check. And AI has "hallucinated" since the beginning. Now people are shocked when a news outlet doesn't double-check the sources...
cvz · 23m ago
I am only really confused about this comment. I don't see any shock here, just people discussing the same disappointing state of events you are.
MarkusQ · 2h ago
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.
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.