Comment by walterbell

16 days ago

> build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner

A few thousand years of pre-LLM primary sources remain available for evaluation by humans and LLMs.

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coryrc  16 days ago

You and I remember pre-AI famous works. "Hey, I'm pretty sure Odysseus took a long time to get home". Somebody goes and prints 50 different AI-generated versions of the _Odyssey_, how are future generations supposed to know which is real and which is fake?

  • walterbell  16 days ago

    > how are future generations supposed to know which is real

    Reality/truth/history has always been an expensive pursuit in the face of evolving pollutants.

    • coryrc  15 days ago

      That's definitely true. History has been thoroughly manufactured by humans. Naively, I thought the storage of computers might preserve first-hand accounts forever; it might, but it might not be discernible.

  • noosphr  16 days ago

    This is literally how the Odyssey was passed down for the 2000 years before the printing press was invented.

    Every work had multiple versions. All versions were different. Some versions were diametrically opposed to others.

    Have a look at Bible scholarship to see just _how_ divergent texts can become by nothing more than scribe errors.

    • coryrc  15 days ago

      They were real because they were made by people all along. Now you can't tell.

      I think you're right my analogy is imperfect. I'm only human (or am I? :P)