Post #2803801

I think people are a bit too eager to swallow bullshit *in general*, as long as spoken/written/gestured in a confident tone. And they often deal with uncertainly poorly; when others show doubt, they often either disregard the info or the doubt itself. This likely predates Big Tech. I do agree with you though, Big Tech is actively encouraging this behaviour — it's easier to sell goods, services and ideas to a gullible person than to a sensible one. And, when it comes to LLMs, Big Tech is always playing some sort of double game: at the same time it claims "the info might be inaccurate, be careful!", but *it tunes its models to use that confident tone that fools people into believing bullshit*. Because the people in Big Tech know that, if the general population becomes sceptic towards LLM output, most of its appeal as a new technology is gone; you can't use it for any task that needs any sort of reliability.