Post #1553001
2026-03-26 13:45 UTC
LLMs are essentially gullible. And many people, even otherwise smart people, are gullible enough to believe that "AI" distillations of facts are trustworthy. It's a problem of gullibility compounded. But there's also an entire industry that's devoted to trying to convince us NOT to be skeptical of AI, not to see it for what it is -- an often-naive statistical model that can and will increasingly be gamed by bad actors.
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 13:51
I once described the US as a complex distributed system with an attack surface of 300 million people. Gullible LLMs are a new vector for attacking that system, one that targets the weakest links in the chain, the people who don't know enough not to distrust those handy-dandy “AI Overview" boxes in their favorite search engine. 7/
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@hamishb@mstdn.ca 2026-03-27 15:39
There's an entire industry devoted to moving fast and breaking things. Its ideology is built into the LLMs, too. @angusm