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Lol I get the feeling it's going to just create more dunning kruger, where people themselves become confident because they heard something from a confident AI and therefore they are now experts. not really different from the people who end up on alternative medicine facebook groups and then end up killing or maiming their children because a bunch of other "parents" said it was so successful for them so it must be true and makes those parents "researching" feel good from short baseless quips.

The other issue is that true comprehension often requires actual long form reading and research yourself and much of the ai-native generation is often incapable of doing so and it sucks that Carl Sagan predicted this 30 years ago:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark