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With that take, the internet was what seeded our destruction. Doctors could get credible-sounding bad advice on the internet a decade ago, no AI needed. This is just another "don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia" moment, and it will pass.

I choose to be naively optimistic: the glut of reasonable-sounding bullshit will increase the practice of citing sources when making claims. Then we can go back to good-old-fashioned lying with statistics.

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Saying that citations will save us, is very naïve. No one checks sources today.

They'll have to if they don't want to be fooled. The problem is that people want to be fooled, not the fooling machine. If LLMs are better at educating than at fooling it'll be ok, if they are not it won't be ok.

I'm glad we'll be saved from bullshit facts with bullshit citations to bullshit articles.

This isn't hypothetical. We already have bullshit citations and bullshit articles today. The only thing remaining is to stick the two together.

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