To get a reality check, open up 3-4 different models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and ask them topics you know really well, and questions you already know the answers to. And see that maybe a quarter, or 25% will fail somewhat. Some topics are of course easier for these than others.
This video is about people who believe ChatGPT (or another LLM) is a sentient being sent to us by aliens or the future to save us. LLM saviour is pretty close to a religious belief. A pretty weird one, but still.
> o get a reality check, open up 3-4 different models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and ask them topics you know really well, and questions you already know the answers to. And see that maybe a quarter, or 25% will fail somewhat.
I have tried this a bit with ChatGPT, and yes, there are a lot of issues. Things such as literally true but misleading answers, incomplete information, and a lack of commonsense.
The internet is full of pure nonsense, quack theories and deliberate fake news.
Humans created those.
The LLMs essentially regurgitate that, and on top they hallucinate the most random stuff.
But in essence the sort of information hygiene practices needed are the same.
I guess the issue is the deliver method. Conversation is intrinsically felt as more "trustworthy".
Also, AI is for all intents and purposes already indistinguishable from magic. So in that context is hard for non-technical people to keep their guard up.
Prior to, activating this population required a high IQ/EQ psychopath to collect followers, or schizophrenic's who believed they were talking to a superior being ('my leader talks directly to me via his writings').
Now however, people can self-hypnotize themselves into a kind of self-cult. It might be the most effective form of this phenomenon if it's highly attuned to the individuals own idiosyncratic interests.
In a typical cult, people fall into or out of the cult based on their internal alignment with the leader and failed enlightenment. But if everyone of these people can have their own highly tailored cult leader, it might be a very hard spell to break.
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