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The difference is, LLMs are way better than most humans at impressing gullible morons, even highly intelligent gullible morons. In truth it's only an incomprehensible statistical model that does what it's told to do, without agency, motivation or ideas. Smart people have build something, they themselves cannot fully understand and the results remind me a lot of what Weizenbaum said about eliza: "I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."