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28 days agoYou’re more than welcome to try coordinating that. That’s our first hurdle. Second is arming ourselves better than the military and DHS. If we fail, we get martial law and no midterm election.
Talk is easy. This defeatist rhetoric only discourages Americans. We should be empowering protestors. Protests are bringing people together and building an army.
It’s not exactly new. There’s a reason customer service is a skill, even in a positive context.
Many people crave affirmation. LLMs compliment their intellect, boosting their ego and affirming that their question falls under critical thinking or research rather than ignorance or stupidity.
They’re the type that turn everything into a conversation (more common for elderly people). They crave human connection.
Along the same lines, some people just dislike technology. LLMs are less robotic.
They may trust information coming from a human more than what pops up online. (A large factor in the spread of disinformation)
The additional context/hand holding helps them digest information
Personally: I learn to live with it because search engines are trash. It’s faster to fact check what an LLM tells me, and it usually involves less unnecessary reading.
Basically, people don’t like researching things. LLMs make it feel more question focused rather than information focused.