Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
dill@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tinfoil hat me goes straight to: make the population dumber and they’re easier to manipulate.
It’s insane how people take LLM output as gospel. It’s a TOOL just like every other piece of technology.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I mostly use it for wordy things like filing out review forms HR make us do and writing templates for messages to customers
dill@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exactly. It’s great for that, as long as you know what you want it to say and can verify it.
The issue is people who don’t critically think about the data they get from it, who I assume are the same type to forward Facebook memes as fact.
It’s a larger problem, where convenience takes priority over actually learning and understanding something yourself.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
As you mentioned tho, not really specific to LLMs at all
dill@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah it’s just escalating the issue due to its universal availability. It’s being used in lieu of Google by many people, who blindly trust whatever it spits out.
If it had a high technological floor of entry, it wouldn’t be as influential to the general public as it is.