[jswelker]

As a fun thought experiment, when people complain about LLMs, I substitute the word "human" or "employee" into the sentence and see if it is equally true.

"You can never really trust an LLM!" -> "You can never really trust an employee!" (Every IT department ever.)

"LLMs make shit up." -> "Humans make shit up." (Wow very profound insight.)

[RevEng]

While that will always be true, LLMs do it a lot more often and do so with confidence and poise. We have evolved ways to tell if someone is making shit up (which usually works); LLMs subvert this. We are also being sold the idea that these LLMs are some kind of super intelligence which isn't helping matters.