The scariest part of the LLM craze is seeing people immediately off-load their critical thinking to a black-box mechanism – for everything from everyday decisions, to life-altering ones like career choices and break-ups.
We have people who are making relationship decisions based on LLM output. People who are getting their delusions validated by AI conversations. I still see human comments posting “I asked ChatGPT and-”. For all the anti-intellectualism I’ve seen, I never thought people would be so quick to offshore their own autonomy, down to the most mundane aspects.
I mean, given that every search engine is pretty much fucking useless now I usually don’t even bother using them and to right to DeepSeek when I need knowledge.
And it truly is incredible to be able to ask questions, get answers, and then go back and forth with the model to get as deep as you need to go. There’s moments, when it works, when it feels like interacting with the computer on Star Trek.
Buts it’s wrong SO OFTEN. Which doesn’t bother me so much because I’m not a fucking idiot and can cross reference what I learn, test the answers, and find other sources.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to take it all literally and at face value.
But then again the bible is still widely read so I really think people underestimate just how fucking stupid people are.
The scariest part of the LLM craze is seeing people immediately off-load their critical thinking to a black-box mechanism – for everything from everyday decisions, to life-altering ones like career choices and break-ups.
We have people who are making relationship decisions based on LLM output. People who are getting their delusions validated by AI conversations. I still see human comments posting “I asked ChatGPT and-”. For all the anti-intellectualism I’ve seen, I never thought people would be so quick to offshore their own autonomy, down to the most mundane aspects.
I mean, given that every search engine is pretty much fucking useless now I usually don’t even bother using them and to right to DeepSeek when I need knowledge.
And it truly is incredible to be able to ask questions, get answers, and then go back and forth with the model to get as deep as you need to go. There’s moments, when it works, when it feels like interacting with the computer on Star Trek.
Buts it’s wrong SO OFTEN. Which doesn’t bother me so much because I’m not a fucking idiot and can cross reference what I learn, test the answers, and find other sources.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to take it all literally and at face value.
But then again the bible is still widely read so I really think people underestimate just how fucking stupid people are.