Post #4488562

An obstacle in convincing people that LLMs writing history or any nonfiction is a bad thing is that there’s a widespread misperception that history is just a collection of facts on a page. This predates bots; I remember suffering through some techbro telling me historians were obsolete in 2011. But the transition to treating everything as “content” has taken away the idea that there’s intent or argumentation behind it. It’s all become value-neutral, which is yet another reason we’re seeing the collapse of critical thinking skills.