[CmdrLoskene]

Can the proliferation of LLMs in the hands of bad actors precipitate a society-wide epistemic crisis? Survey says "maybe".

[rootusrootus]

I expect a non-trivial number of people will tell you that we've been in a full blown epistemic crisis for some years now, and we have yet to find out just how far the rabbit hole will go.

[williamcotton]

The epistemic crisis mirrors the proliferation of electronic media. It really ramped up with the common adoption of the smartphone and social media.