I'll say that I'm still kinda on the fence here, but I will point out that your argument is exactly the same as the argument against calculators back in the 70s/80s, computers and the internet in the 90s, etc.
You could argue that a lot of the people who few up with calculators have lost any kind of mathematical intuition. I am always horrified how bad a lot of people are with simple math, interest rates and other things. This definitely opened up a lot of opportunities for companies to exploit this ignorance.
The difference is a calculator always returns 2+2=4. And even then if you ended up with 6 instead of 4, the fact you know how to do addition already leads you to believe you fat fingered the last entry and that 2+2 does not equal 6.
Can’t say the same for LLM. Our teachers were right with the internet of course as well. If you remember those early internet wild west school days, no one was using the internet to actually look up a good source. No one even knew what that meant. Teachers had to say “cite from these works or references we discussed in class” or they’d get junk back.
Right so apply the exact same logic to LLMs as you did to the internet.
At first the internet was unreliable. Nobody could trust the information it gave you. So teachers insisted that students only use their trusted sources. But eventually the internet matured and now it would be seen as ridiculous for a teacher to tell a student not to do research on the internet.
Most teachers would never let you grab any random internet source. We always had to get decent sources. Actual journal articles from our library’s JSTOR subscription would often be a hard requirement for a certain number of sources. Citing the text we used in class or other reference material we had access to as well. It was never free rein anything goes, unless that has changed.
I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Only to point out that in the early days of the internet, even into the 00s, teachers had a Hard No rule on any internet source.
I graduated high school in '04 and even then I was only allowed to use this system called "Galileo" which was basically a curated listed of encyclopedic articles specifically meant for education and research.
On the one hand, yeah, immigration and trade issues push the buttons of the hard right.
On the other hand, our hard right has a trifecta of business, gun culture, and religion.
You're lacking the religion and gun culture, and trying to take away your health care would be the third rail, so in some respects, it would be difficult for you to follow us.
Also, without that trifecta, it seems that it would be somewhat more difficult to push the sort of anti-education agenda that gets pushed here, both at the university level and at lower levels (e.g. giving equal time to science and creationism).
You have to remember that the US was, in large part, founded by dogmatic malcontents who couldn't get along with their neighbors.