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Comment by iamtheworstdev | Hacker News Reader

In the LLMs defense - most airline pilots think this is how things work, as well.

In humans and pilots defense - Most airline pilots do not claim they have PhD level intelligence (whatever that means), as OpenAI/sama hyped frequently about gpt-5 in the preceding months.

Indeed, this claim is at the very top of the announcement:

  > GPT‑5 is smarter across the board, providing more useful responses across math, science, finance, law, and more. It's like having a team of experts on call for whatever you want to know.

no but they should be expected to know better during their commercial license oral exam. (speaking as a pilot)

Placing the blame on the LLM is skirting the real issue, which is that these companies are trying to upend society by constructing a new reliance on these LLMs. If the hype around the AI space wasn't here, then there would be fewer people accepting these tools as some all-knowing machine tantamount to a god.

You do not need to be an aerodynamicist or aerospace engineer to be a pilot. Not every pilot is a test pilot.

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