Subj : Re: Writing with LLMs
To   : Dmxrob
From : Ed Vance
Date : Thu Sep 18 2025 08:41 pm


> BY: Bob Worm (21:1/205)
> On Wednesday,September 17, 2025 at 07:23 AM, Bob Worm (21:1/205) wrote:

> Hey Bob!

> It worries me too.  And not because I think AI will "take over all the jobs"
> or any of that nonsense.  But exactly as you said, people are letting their
> brains rust.  It was bad enough to start with, but now people are getting to
> the point where they can't even solve basic problems or they don't know how
> to distiguish between right and wrong.

> Then you have AI increasingly getting things wrong, injecting false
> information or hallucinating and it is a disaster.  There are fewer and fewer
> "smart people" left to solve the actual problems, and those who are using AI
> for every little thing don't know what to do when something goes wrong that
> they can't ask ChatGPT for help with -- and even when it does help, how do
> you know it's telling you the truth?

> It's scary and I think it's going to make the brain drain problem in business
> much worse.  People who can actually THINK, REASON and SOLVE will be able to
> write their own paychecks.

> -dmxrob

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While readint the above made me think how I will enter a URL in DuckDuckGo
search box so I can use one of the Results to go to that webpage .
I do that thinking if DuckDuckGo is familiar with the website then it should be
O.K. to see what is on their page(s).
Ed
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