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If only that was the case. Laywers used them in courts, key people are using it to analyze reports and make decisions for them because it's "AI" and advertised as better than humans. The problem is LLMs output look coherent and make sense so with the advertising, people are misled about what it does and what is capable of.

People are only hearing about AI, how it's revolutionary, and how it's master in every field.

It can solve questions better than me so why would I not use it to help me with everything that I can't figure out?

There are billions spent in marketing to make people buy these products. No one is telling customers to figure it out and see if it's useful.

Even many technical people started getting lost:

  you know what? maybe it does reason. I asked it this novel trick question and it answered correctly. This is a new model, we don't fully understand its capabilities yet.

You might be able to spot little "mistakes" and "exaggeration" and see they're just selling it but people accumulate those "exaggeration" from here and there and build on them collectively.