"a conceptual illustration exploring two contrasting modes of trust and verification" Large models a…
"a conceptual illustration exploring two contrasting modes of trust and verification" Large models are optimized, directly and indirectly, to sound coherent, confident, and fluent — that is close to their actual core competency. Humans have a well-documented bias, the fluency heuristic, that treats fluent delivery as evidence of truth. A person who runs on that heuristic by default is structurally exposed to being misled by a fluent machine. A person whose relationship to fluency was broken early — for any of several distinct reasons — never developed the shortcut in the first place, and is structurally harder to mislead the same way. This is a claim about mechanism, not a claim that any one diagnosis guarantees the trait. https://begump.com/research/never-trusted-the-page/
