[alephnerd]

I think the user experience of seeing a model extruding realistic sounding text is what broke a lot of people.

Back in HS, I introduced a buddy of mine to ELIZA mode in emacs, and it completely broke her mind the same way LLMs did for a lot of people - like she actually conversed with ELIZA and used it to solve her anxiety during the college admissions process. Yet ELIZA used very simple heuristics to extrude human sounding text. And my friend wasn't some dummy or Luddite - she ended up going to an Ivy to study economics and medicine.

It goes to show that User Experience is all that really matters for technology.