Comment by zzzeek
3 hours ago
when people say "there should be no AI taught in schools ever. prompting? what skill is there in talking to a liar bot?" this is where they are dead wrong. Being correctly critical of LLM output is a huge skill and news flash it applies to people and human-written things too.
Being critical of LLM output isn't a new skill that is separate from critical thinking.
Being particularly critical of LLM output after using LLMs is not an acquired skill either; what is acquired is the erosion of trust.
Being skeptical/critical isn't a skill, it's an attitude, a state of mind. An education that requires you to find your own information and sources manually breeds that state of mind. Giving LLMs to kids (or even adults) nurtures the opposite. It's like taking them to McDonald's every day and telling them to eat healthy. Yes there's a salad on the menu, but it's rarely going to be chosen.
Of course the reality that adults do trust AI uncritically because it's the path of least resistance means the traditional education I mentioned above wasn't sufficient. But that's all the more reason not to introduce a variable that makes things worse.
> Yes there's a salad on the menu
The salad is also pretty trash if you use the default dressing.