Survey: Why Non-Tech Workers Don't Trust AI—and Fear for Their Jobs

The more knowledge you have about what an LLM is and how it works the worse it feels to watch people use the damned things. I've got a friend who uses them for marketing copy for her job (sure, whatever), for grocery lists (uhh), for writing scripts for difficult conversations (uuuuhhhh), and as a source-of-truth search engine (UUUHH). Like she's fully surrendering her ability to think to the Machine That Only Tells Lies. Butlerian Jihad can't come fast enough

I was about to point out that I have IoT stuff and hate AI, but my IoT stuff is mostly using zigbee instead of wifi so it can’t try to phone home…

in more niche problems, it will often hallucinate that there's a magic parameter that does exactly what you want. It will never tell you "Nope, can't be done, you have to restructure around doing it this other way"

This was why, in spite of it all, I had a brief glimmer of hope for DeepSeek -- it's designed to reveal both its sources and the process by which it reaches its regurgitated conclusions, since it was meant to be an open-source research aid rather than a proprietary black-box chatbot.