[twoodfin]

I feel like any information can’t be taken as fact, it can just be rolled into your world view and discarded if useful or not.

The concern, I think, is that for many that “discard function” is not, “Is this information useful?”. Instead: “Does this information reinforce my existing world view?”

That feedback loop and where it leads is potentially catastrophic at societal scale.

[RussianCow]

This was happening well before LLMs, though. If anything, I have hope that LLMs might break some people out of their echo chambers if they ask things like "do vaccines cause autism?"

[DaiPlusPlus]

> I have hope that LLMs might break some people out of their echo chambers

Are LLMs "democratized" yet, though? If not, then it's just-as-likely that LLMs will be steered by their owners to reinforce an echo-chamber of their own.

For example, what if RFK Jr launched an "HHS LLM" - what then?

[tptacek]

... nobody would take it seriously? I don't understand the question.