Comment Re: So, his stance is it will be better for machin (Score 1) 41
(a) I did that fine previously without AI
Me too, but it took a lot longer and I was a lot less thorough. I would skim a half-dozen links from the search result, the LLM reads a lot more, and a lot more thoroughly.
(b) Nobody is following any of the links that supposedly support the conclusions of the AI; nobody is reading any source material, they just believe whatever the AI says
I do. I tell the LLM to always include links to its sources, and I check them. Not all of them, but enough to make sure the LLM is accurately representing them. Granted that other people might not do this, but those other people also wouldn't check more than the first hit from the search engine, which is basically the same problem. If you only read the top hit, you're trusting the search engine's ranking algorithm.
into AI-generated slop, such that (d) Humans can no longer access original, correct information sources. It is becoming impossible.
That seems like a potential risk. I have't actually seen that happening in any of the stuff I've looked at.