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1. probably_wrong · 1789742397 · focus · HN ↗

   First, to get it out of the way: I'm seeing comments here that clearly haven't read the article. I encourage you all to do that.

   I feel the article gets it right when suggesting it's the amount of (not always accurate!) data they can throw at you. In an honest discussion there's an assumption that the other person won't straight up lie to me so if someone shows me ten examples for why my argument is wrong I may be inclined to believe them. But if half of those examples are made up, well, that's a different story.

   I still think of the commenter here who said "LLMs are a DDOS on free resources" and I feel the comparison works here. If police officers can overwhelm innocent people into confessing, then so can an LLM that "can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are"... convinced.

   1. like_any_other · 1789780556 · focus · HN ↗

      > In an honest discussion there's an assumption that the other person won't straight up lie to me so if someone shows me ten examples for why my argument is wrong I may be inclined to believe them.

      Careful. Someone sufficiently knowledgeable can cherry-pick enough examples to convince you, without lying. They could even be unaware of what they're doing, and the cherry-picking was done by their teachers, or their teacher's teachers.

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