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0 pointsdylan6045mo ago0 comments

To me, it's the natural result of gaining popularity that enough people have started to use after the hype train rolled through and are now giving honest feedback. Real honest feedback can feel like a slap in the face when all you have had is overwhelming positive feedback from those aboard the hype train.

The writing has been on the wall with so called hallucinations where LLMs just make stuff up that the hype was way out over its skiis. The examples of lawyers being fined for unchecked LLM outputs being presented as fact type of stories will continue to take the shine off and hopefully some of the raw gungho nature will slow down a bit.

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zdragnar5mo ago

I saw an article today from the BBC where travellers are using LLMs to plan their vacations and getting into trouble going places (sometimes dangerously remote ones) to visit landmarks that don't even exist:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250926-the-perils-of-le...

I'm mildly bearish on the human capacity to learn from its mistakes and have a feeling in my gut that we've taken a massive step backwards as civilization.

alickz5mo ago

People have blindly followed GPS routes into lakes and rivers, but that should hardly be a point against GPS

With 8 billion people on the planet, you could write a "man bites dog" story about any invention popular enough

"You never read about a plane that did not crash"

dylan604OP5mo ago

I could almost understand a lawyer working late the night before a brief is due and just run out of time to review the output of the LLM. How do you not look up travel destinations before heading out? That's just something I can't wrap my head around in any way of trying to be kind and seeing the other side of something

glandium5mo ago

> How do you not look up travel destinations before heading out?

From the layman's perspective, they did. That's the whole problem.

blibble5mo ago

because people have had their entire lives to get used to the idea that computers are reliable (sans Microsoft software)

no-one wants stochastic computers

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