Ads shows kids asking for answers to homework on things like "when did xyz battle take place"
Your frustration with people talking about it might be better directed at the people marketing it
From what I see, not very many people understand the limitations of LLMs (e.g., scroll up and down the very page you're reading now). This stuff probably needs to be talked about a lot more.
This is every person in 2007 who looked at an iphone and thought "What's the big deal?" and not only failed to recognized what had changed, but confidently insisted others were wrong.
That was me. Well, the first half — I wasn't confidently insisting others were wrong, because even back then I had a vague inkling even then that my preferences in general are very weird.
But to AI: I think this is more like Wikipedia, where the frequent errors made it the butt of many jokes, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUApUyurxwY
That’s an uncharitable take. People are pointing out its problems precisely because they believe AI is going to be transformative, but will have negative consequences for humanity as well.
I think it’s more akin to someone in 2007 seeing an I phone and saying: this is a terrible device, people will look at while driving, it will be used to create vast intrusive surveillance state, etc.
Can't change lazy people
The failure of education in teaching Critical Thinking around the world is massive. It would be a good idea to focus on how to exploit LLMs to improve the situation.
Also because, given the situation, the same "forces" that promote viscerality shamelessly naming it "The Truth" could have the opposite idea about chatbots and similar areas, exploiting them in their direction...
Doing this will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.