[r0x0r007]

Students are like the electrical current, given the path with least resistance they will follow it(as with most of people). Cutting off such a path is NP hard to do at scale IMO. But definitely agree on the idea of the article.

[rob_c]

A damning statement of the masses.

How about LLM do away with the pointless painful and thankless brute forcing of huge databases of physical paper to find the key piece of information you want to check something against. Teaching that, that is what academic study is leads to the misconception that writing enough about something makes it valid. A serious problem in many of the areas of new academic prostration.

I'd say this opens research to a new audience who otherwise wouldn't go near it, but frankly we see what damage the internet did to society after people said this in the 90s so yes maybe put it back in the box...

[squigz]

> frankly we see what damage the internet did to society after people said this in the 90s

Isn't ignoring the incredible good the Internet has done exactly what you're advocating against with regards to LLMs?

Yes, new technology that impacts fundamental aspects of our society will have negative side effects that we will have to adapt to and solve - but on the whole, I think the Internet has produced far more good in the world than otherwise. We'll see how LLMs pan out, but I suspect it'll play out similarly.