[vunderba]

> So many people are looking for one gotcha to dismiss AI altogether.

That might say more about your own social circle. Most of my friends take a pretty measured approach to AI.

> The relationship between a chatbot and its user is transparent.

Is it? Depending on the LLM you are using, there might be quite a bit of alignment that's built into the natural bias of the model, and that's not even taking into account the usually massive system prompt that's automatically injected into the context window. Your average non-techie is simply going to be unaware of this.

> We're living in a Goldilocks time where AI chatbots are amazing search assistants and they have yet to be tarnished by sponsored content.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/why-we-re-experimenting-w...