[skybrian]

I don't think it's any more alarming than people posting that they find Stack Overflow useful sometimes. That's why it became popular, right?

Similarly for searching the Internet. Internet searches are potentially dangerous if you can't tell good answers from bad. But if you treat it as a source of hints that you need to verify yourself, it's a pretty good source of hints.

Many of us have learned quite well that LLM's are unreliable. Someone posts about the problem whenever it comes up. It's something close to conventional wisdom.

It's still surprising the first time you see it hallucinate, though. You have to see it for yourself. Once you've seen it a few times, it isn't so convincing anymore.