I think you’re missing mine. I know it’s not clever. I think everything it creates is either slop, plagiarism and almost always both.

My point is: An arbitrary random number generator without any stable internal model of the world would still be a bad thing if it can, without any conscious intention, trick/confuse people into thinking its so awesome and clever that they choose it to be emperor of Earth, leader of the economy, decider of reality, and build it a great throne upon which they can worship it and and an altar to burn oil on as a sacrifice to the environment. That’s what LLMs are doing. It doesn’t matter whether the LLMs intend to, it doesn’t matter whether they have intentions at all. What matters is that it’s so “well presented” that people fall for it. It’s the effectiveness it has at making people fall for it that’s the problem. Dismissing those people as weak, naive, stupid can’t be done because their actions matter, their votes matter, their financial choices matter, they’re part of the civilization we live in, and frankly, they seem to be the majority.