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Oh, you mean like people have been saying about books for 500+ years?
Not remotely the same thing. Books almost always have context on what they are, like having an author listed, and hopefully citations if it's about real things. You can figure out more about it. LLMs create confident sounding outputs that are just predictions of what an output should look like based on the input. It didn't reason and doesn't tell you how it generated its response.
The problem is LLMs are sold to people as Artifical Intelligence, so it sounds like it's smart. In actuality, it doesn't think at all. It just generates confident sounding results. It's literally companies selling con(fidence) men as a product, and people fully trust these con men.
Yeah, nobody has ever written a book that's full of bullshit, bad arguments, and obvious lies before, right?
Obviously anyone who uses any technology needs to be aware of the limitations and pitfalls, but to imagine that this is some entirely new kind of uniquely-harmful thing is to fail to understand the history of technology and society's responses to it.
Lies are still better than ChatGPT. ChatGPT isn't even capable of lying. It doesn't know anything. It outputs statistically probable text.
How exactly? Bad information is bad information, regardless of the source.
People understand the concept of liars and bad faith actors. People don't seem to understand that facts don't factor into a chatbot's output at all. cf all the replies defending them in this post.
So that seems like more of a lack-of-understanding problem, not an 'LLMs are bad' problem as it's being portrayed in the larger thread.