Yeah, I think that’s definitely only a correlation. They’re both probably caused by lack of critical thinking and poor ability to assess risk.
Precisely. The AI is not causing people to be dumber, it’s just dumber people use AI and also believe vaccine disinformation.
Explains a lot about why every person I met that religiously use LLMs for personal use have been bumbling fucking morons.
Shocking that systems trained in misinformation will spout misinformation.
Make sense to me. All those charts you see about AI and political bias don’t take into account the fact that this bias would be influenced by the user, can eventually supersede the base instructions*. It’s only a matter of time before the chatbot says, “you’re right about vaccines and the JQ, would you like a bleach recipe?”
Chatbots might skew liberal in a laboratory setting, but they are built for sycophancy towards their userbase, not the labs.
* Insultingly, chatbot companies call this natural and unavoidable process “jailbreaking” as if it’s not inherent to their product.
Dumb people believe dumb things
It can be used successfully but you need to instruct it to only rely on science that can be shown in studies, just tell it the facts, give it your data, and ask a non-leading question, and finally confirm with a doctor. Research I did with frontier models when my parents were in hospital likely saved both of their lives. I think the HMO employed doctor (same one both times) was actively trying to kill them. Using them against my own medical records turned up ideas that my doctors missed but agreed to when brought up.
