[ozgung]

Chronologically, our main sources of information have been:

1. People around us

2. TV and newspapers

3. Random people on the internet and their SEO-optimized web pages

Books and experts have been less popular. LLMs are an improvement.

[martin-t]

> LLMs are an improvement.

Unless somebody is using them to generate authoritative-sounding human-sounding text full of factoids and half-truths in support of a particular view.

Then it becomes about who can afford more LLMs and more IPs to look like individual users.

[ahartmetz]

Interesting point, actually - LLMs are a return to curated information. In some ways. In others, they tell everyone what they want to hear.