Comment by skeeter2020
1 day ago
>> Well it turns out you can manage just fine.
You missed the full context: you would never be able to trust a bunch of amateur randos self-policing their content. Turns out it's not perfect but better than a very small set of professionals; usually there's enough expertise out there, it's just widely distributed. The challenge this time is 1. the scale, 2. the rate of growth, 3. the decline in expertise.
>> Using LLMs effectively is a skill too, and that does involve deciding when and how to verify information.
How do you verify when ALL the sources are share the same AI-generated root, and ALL of the independent (i.e. human) experts have aged-out and no longer exist?
> How do you verify when ALL the sources are share the same AI-generated root,
Why would that happen? There's demand for high quality, trustworthy information and that's not going away.
When asking an LLM coding questions, for example, you can ask for sources and it'll point you to documentation. It won't always be the correct link, but you can prod it more and usually get it, or fall back to searching the docs the old fashioned way.