> But it is another good example that "AI" is just glorified search and there is not reasoning or thinking going on behind the covers.
I don't think that follows. This is just LLMs being, for a lack of a better word, "gullible." How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet? People fall for spam and scams all the time, doesn't mean they are just glorified searches ;-)
It does highlight the problem facing any search engine though. AI-generated spam will be much harder to defend against with traditional, statistical mechanisms. And this is before we get to the existential problem of prompt injection.
Maybe this is where news organizations can win back their proper place in their relationship with Big Tech: by becoming the sources of verified, vetted information that LLMs can trust blindly. Possibly that's what deals like the OpenAI / Atlantic one are about.
I don't think that follows. This is just LLMs being, for a lack of a better word, "gullible." How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet? People fall for spam and scams all the time, doesn't mean they are just glorified searches ;-)
It does highlight the problem facing any search engine though. AI-generated spam will be much harder to defend against with traditional, statistical mechanisms. And this is before we get to the existential problem of prompt injection.
Maybe this is where news organizations can win back their proper place in their relationship with Big Tech: by becoming the sources of verified, vetted information that LLMs can trust blindly. Possibly that's what deals like the OpenAI / Atlantic one are about.