alt Hacker NewsWe all think ourselves as understanding the tradeoffs of this tech and that we know how to use it responsibly. And we here may be right. But the typical person wants to do the least amount of effort and thinking possible. Our society will evolve to reflect this, it won't be great, and it will affect all of us no matter how personally responsible some of us remain.
I consider myself pretty technically literate, and not the worst at programming (though certainly far from the very best). Even so I can spend plenty of time arguing with LLMs which will give me plausible looking but extremely broken answers to some of the programming problems.
In the programming domain I can at least run something and see it doesn't compile or work as I expect, but you can't verify that a written statement about someone/something is the correct interpretation without knowing the correct answer ahead of time. To muddy the waters further, things work just well enough on common knowledge that it's easy to believe it could be right about uncommon knowledge which you don't know how to verify. (Or else you wouldn't be asking it in the first place)