[SoftTalker]

You go to school and learn US History. The teacher tells you a lot of facts and you memorize them accordingly.

How can you confirm the legitimacy of what you have been taught?

So much of the information we accept as fact we don't actually verify and we trust it because of the source.

[nebulousthree]

In a way, students trust the aggregate of "authority checking" that the school and the professors go through in order to develop the curriculum. The school acts as the jeweller friend that vouches for the stories you're told. What happens when a school is known to tell tall tales? One might assume that the reputation of the school would take a hit. If you simply don't trust the school, then there's no reason to attend it.

[omgwtfbyobbq]

A big part of this is what the possible negative outcomes of trusting a source of information are.

An LLM being used for sentencing in criminal cases could go sideways quickly. An LLM used to generate video subtitles if the subtitles aren't provided by someone else would have more limited negative impacts.