I feel there is worrying trend that more people are now relying on llm for their judgement and to convince themselves of certain views. Also, there is robot on social platforms doing the job of arbitration of comments and people deeply believing in it. In short term, such thing have benefitial effects as it partially combat outright lies and misinformation, but in longer term, I feel every one of us are increasingly entrapped into a state of what I called "mediated communication": search engines no longer give you original excerpt of searched text, but a summary of things discussed, every one of them starts with "learn about xxx"; webpages of knowledge "sharings"... (read 452 more words →)
I feel there is worrying trend that more people are now relying on llm for their judgement and to convince themselves of certain views. Also, there is robot on social platforms doing the job of arbitration of comments and people deeply believing in it. In short term, such thing have benefitial effects as it partially combat outright lies and misinformation, but in longer term, I feel every one of us are increasingly entrapped into a state of what I called "mediated communication": search engines no longer give you original excerpt of searched text, but a summary of things discussed, every one of them starts with "learn about xxx"; webpages of knowledge "sharings"... (read 452 more words →)