| > you trusted what you read before. For me, LLMs don't change anything. I already questioned the information before and continue to do so. [...]
Why do you think that you could trust what you read before? A human communicator is, in a sense, testifying when communicating. Humans have skin in the social game. We try to educate people, we do want people to be well-informed and to think critically about what they read and hear. In the marketplace of information, we tend very strongly to trust non-delusional, non-hallucinating members of society. Human society is a social-confidence network. In social media, where there is a cloak of anonymity (or obscurity), people may behave very badly. But they are usually full of excuses when the cloak is torn away; they are usually remarkably contrite before a judge. A human communicator can face social, legal, and economic consequences for false testimony. Humans in a corporation, and the corporation itself, may be held accountable. They may allocate large sums of money to their defence, but reputation has value and their defence is not without social cost and monetary cost. It is literally less effort at every scale to consult a trusted and trustworthy source of information. It is literally more effort at every scale to feed oneself untrustworthy communication. |