[deckard1]

> rather have you listening uncritically to ChatGPT than to a lot of crap on the internet

This, to me, seems to be an amusing reversal of trends. Before the internet there was the "mainstream media". NBC, CBS, ABC run by the big conglomerates such as GE. Which would mold public consensus in the US. Now there is a desire to go back to that. Let LLM do the thinking and the managing of biases and just tell me what to think.

The unfiltered internet is too much. It's overwhelming. It's the raw sewage of the Facebook feed. We need someone to coddle us. And that champion, today, is OpenAI.

[airstrike]

That description of the state of the media today vs. yesterday is so grossly oversimplified it leads you to the wrong conclusions about people's perceptions of why asking ChatGPT is often more valuable than asking Google.

Studying political polarization in the US, the end of the Cold War, globalization, the end of the fairness doctrine, the evolution of major media ownership over time, social media algorithms, echo chambers and confirmation bias is left as a starting exercise for the reader.