You can prompt an llm and make it give you 5 reasons for any argument. LLMs are very good at writing highly convincing things that sound logical but may or may not be based in reality.

Would be better to say "I can run a research agent session and it can pull 5 data trends and papers that show the HOA are making things better" (I dont know if this is true and I did not do it)

I don't really think HOAs are the biggest driver of home prices/availbility one way or the other though.

To an extent they might make sense where there are shared facilities that need to be funded, like a swimming pool or something. Most of what they seem to do is just bullshit though.

> I can prompt an LLM to refute this and it would give me 5 reasons ... Hard to read this and really come away with a sense of what the truth is.

Are you arguing a meta point that there is no such thing as truth because LLMs can make you any counter argument to you want? That seems bleak. Argue against the actual points of the article.

I can prompt and LLM to prove this and it gives me 5 reasons HOAs are making things worse.

"HOAs and homeowners have always been at odds" might be the most succinct description of the problem that modern "homeowner associations" constitute.

That's not a reason to change your mind ... LLMs can refute anything you ask them to without thinking.

I wouldn’t want to live in a neighborhood without an HOA, especially in the south. If you don’t have an HOA like 30% of your neighbors are going to have a lot full of junk cars, houses patchily painted lavender and shitty unmowed front yards. However, I very carefully read all the fine print for what the HOA enforces and how much it costs before each home purchase. Some of them can be insane. I’ve seen up to $500 a month.

Barring any guardrails, AI would tell me that the Holocaust had redeeming qualities if I asked it.

They are not truth or judgment machines.

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