[ben_w]

Newspapers have a long-standing tradition of exactly the same disconnection from reality that LLMs get flak for.

https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/03/19-14.53.05.html

[mdp2021]

Very nice article, Ben.

But see, being it a given from experience that humans can be so bad in judgement, reasoning, professionalism, output... Why did we strive for superhuman judgement, reasoning, professionalism, output? (The same way we strived for superhuman strength.)

[ben_w]

Thanks.

> Why did we strive for superhuman judgement, reasoning, professionalism, output?

Lots of possible reasons; there's many ways for it to be valuable.

(And it's not like the newspapers are deliberately writing fiction, with notable exceptions like The Onion).

If it's a rhetorical question, I'd be interested to know what you had in mind :)