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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

However, since one was using LLM he was skipping the critical thought portion and just trying to use an LLM to fake engagement

This presupposes sincere engagement prior to LLMs. You're assuming this guy wasn't just regurgitating talking points cobbled up the old fashioned was, as though repeating lines you heard from Jordan Peterson or JD Vance on a Joe Rogan podcast.

Alternatively, that this person remains totally sincerely in their beliefs and simply leverage the LLM to recall obscure, vaguely remembered historical details. Or to clean up their poor grammar or clumsy prose.

LLMs have no impact on critical thinking in either case. At least, no more than spell check or a Wikipedia fact lookup or a brain saturated by other people's professed views.

While flooding the field with bullshit low quality content isn’t new, this is a whole new level of disengagement.

The argument that someone is "using LLMs" becomes a superficial excuse to disengage.

And hey, maybe that's good. Maybe less people treating the Internet as a real place with sincere people will convince folks to engage more in MeatSpace.

But "technology is making us dumber" is a line I see floated endlessly. It reads more as misanthropy and elitism than any real critique of the new technology