Technologists and publicists gush about how Large Language Models (LLMs) will revolutionize the way we work, learn, play, communicate, create, and connect to another.
They are right that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.
And they are right that by providing a way for people to talk with machines in ordinary language, LLMs constitute a dramatic step forward in making computing accessible to everyone.
Yet for all the good that AI systems will do, they will also saturate our information environment with bullshit at a scale we’ve never before encountered.
